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

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

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.

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

The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.