When I speak it is in order to be heard.

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From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

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

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

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

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Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

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Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

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

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

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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.

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