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De Saussure's Conceptualistic Circuit Model (1915)

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The categories concept and image acoustique belong to the generalised langue, while audition and phonation belong to the heterogeneous parole. If Audition and Phonation are regarded as functions, then a structure such as the following might be proposed:

<Concept,ImageAcoustique,SpeechFunctions>

where, in particular, SpeechFunctions is a set of functions:

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Dafydd Gibbon
Wed Oct 21 15:49:14 MET DST 1998