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Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
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From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
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Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
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Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
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Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.
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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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Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
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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.
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For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.
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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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A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
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