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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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"There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate."
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"The one overall structure in my plays is language."
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"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."
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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."
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"The wonder of words."
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"Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language."
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"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."
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"More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor."
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"Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries."
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"Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language."
Language
"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."
Now
"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."
Sound
"At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features."
First
"A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography."
Investigation
"For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc."
Example
"In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified."
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."
Giving
"When I speak it is in order to be heard."
Order
"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."
Richness
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