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.

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

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

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?

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

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.