The Function Of Poetry Is

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

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.

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.

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

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