When I speak it is in order to be heard.

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.

What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.