When I speak it is in order to be heard.

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

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

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

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.

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.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.