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

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

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

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

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

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

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.