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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."
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"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."
"It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification."
"The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning."
"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."
"A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography."
"At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features."
"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."
"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."
"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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