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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.

Bilingualism Is For Me The Fundamental Problem Of Linguistics.

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.