It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.
Roman Jakobson
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Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
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