Psychological Phonetics in the Saussure Linguistics

Abstract

Psychological Phonetical research comes from a saying that was  repeated in a number of sources studying language, by the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, namely, his call to make the study of phonology a secondary or marginal study. In view of the study of other branches of linguistics, such as grammar, morphology, semantics, and others, the one who examines the researches  of the book (Lessons in General Linguistics), which was published by “Bali and Sishai”  who were students of Saussure, three years after his death on his behalf, will find that this statement or call is mentioned by Saussure in these lessons, and at the same time he will find special researches therein, that intended for the study of phonology in its branches. Thus, this research tried to answer two questions, posed by students of linguistics in general, and students of sounds in particular, the first of which: Did Saussure want this concept, as his students actually expressed it in the lectures, or they quoted it according to their understanding?  and the second: If the call to secondary or marginal phonology was correct, and it was proven from Saussure, then why did he make his study a secondary study, which is a branch of language, that is, a language, which the student of linguistics has no need for?