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

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.

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

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

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

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.