A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
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.
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.