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• What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
• Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
• In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and…
• It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no…
• Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
• A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
• The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and…
• Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

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