When I Speak It Is In Order

Now The Identification Of Individual Sounds By Phonetic Observation Is An Artificial Way Of Proceeding.

A Linguist Deaf To The Poetic Functions Of Language And A Literary Scholar Indifferent To Linguistics Are Equally Flagrant Anachronisms.

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.

Every Linguistic Sign Is Located On Two Axes: The Axis Of Simultaneity And That Of Succession.