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

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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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"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."

Language, Sound, Value

"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."

Richness, Sound

"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."

Sound,

"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."

Identity, Solution, Variety

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

Now, Observation

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

Language, Light, Speech

"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."

Giving, Risk, Value

"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."

Light, Meaning, Speech

"When I speak it is in order to be heard."

Order,

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

First,

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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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Investigation, Photography