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[...] it is not enough to pattern off all speech sounds as such against other sounds produced by the 'organs of speech'. There is a second phase of sound patterning which is more elusive and of correspondingly greater significance for the linguist. This is the inner configuration of the sound system of a language, the intuitive 'placing' of the sounds with reference to one another. - Sapir (1925), a pag.35
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