When I speak it is in order to be heard.

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

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.

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

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.

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

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