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"A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography."
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"In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over."
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"The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take."
"After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion."
"It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making."
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"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."
"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."
"At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features."
"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."
"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 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."
"Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language."
"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."
"Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components."
"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."
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