Languages Differ Essentially In What They Must

Now The Identification Of Individual Sounds By Phonetic Observation Is An Artificial Way Of Proceeding.

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.

A New Era In The Physiological Investigation Of Linguistic Sounds Was Opened Up By X-ray Photography.

Languages Differ Essentially In What They Must Convey And Not In What They May Convey.