No phonetic sign except at a rudimentary strictly speaking prelinguistic level of vocal imitation has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to...

No phonetic sign except at a rudimentary strictly speaking prelinguistic level of vocal imitation has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.
George Steiner

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No phonetic sign except at a rudimentary strictly speaking prelinguistic level of vocal imitation has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate. George Steiner

No phonetic sign except at a rudimentary strictly speaking prelinguistic level of vocal imitation has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.
George Steiner