"Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components."

Time, Unity, Word

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"Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components."

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"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."

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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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"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."

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"Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components."

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"At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

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"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

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