When I speak it is in order to be heard.

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.