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Linguistic Sounds, Considered As External, Physical Phenomena Have Two Aspects, The Motor And The Acoustic.

Speech Sounds Cannot Be Understood, Delimited, Classified And Explained Except In The Light Of The Tasks Which They Perform In Language.

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.

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.

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