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Lemma  sign/al 
Categoria grammaticale  N 
Lingua  inglese 
Opera  Sapir (1921) 
Sinonimi   
Rinvii  element of experience (inglese)
element of language (inglese)
meaning (inglese)
outer (inglese)
sequence (inglese)
significant (inglese)
sound of language (inglese)
speech (inglese)
symbol (inglese)  
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Citazioni 

This 'element' of experience is the [...] 'meaning' of the linguistic unit; 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,' of which more anon.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.9

The true, significant elements of language are generally sequences of sounds [...] What distinguishes each of these elements is that it is the outward sign of a specific idea [...]
- Sapir (1921), a pag.24

 
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