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

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

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

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.

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

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

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