[...] a speech sound [...] is very far from being an element of language. It must be further associated with some some element or group of elements of experience [...] before it has [...] linguistic significance. This 'element ' of experience is the content or 'meaning' of the linguistic unit [...] - Sapir (1921), a pag.10 [...] the associated auditory, motor, and other cerebral processes that lie immediately back of the act of speaking and the act of hearing speech are merely a complicated symbol of or signal for these 'meanings' [...] - Sapir (1921), a pag.10
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