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The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
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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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