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Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.
Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.
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.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
When I speak it is in order to be heard.
On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial.
The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. Climate change - it happens, with or without our help.
Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, "big picture" understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.
About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.
After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.
After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.
Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
I have always loved going to school.
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