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

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

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

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.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

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

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