What linguistics is all aboutLanguage is speechLe langage, c'est d'abord la parole.Langage is spoken through speech, langage is heard through speech. Writing is just a recording technology, a very imperfect one at that. Writing is quite recent in the history of humanity. (Silent) reading is still more recent. Anecdote. Quand St Augustin rencontre St Ambroise. Nota bene. Many important applications of computational linguistics concern written language, of course. But the fundamental concepts of linguistics concern speech, this is why we emphasis its importance. |