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

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

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

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

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.

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

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.