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When I Speak It Is In Order To Be Heard.

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

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.

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.