Speech Sounds Cannot Be Understood, Delimited, Classified

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.

Bilingualism Is For Me The Fundamental Problem Of Linguistics.

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

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

A New Era In The Physiological Investigation Of Linguistic Sounds Was Opened Up By X-ray Photography.