The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
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From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.Roman Jakobson
The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.
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Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.
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Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.
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Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
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