A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

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

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.

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.

Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.

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