Our new view to be discussed here deviates radically from this interpretation of speech phenomena. It assumes what we will call prosodic organization of an utterance or its phrasal components (as a phonetic unit) as the basic structure of speech phenomena. This structure is associated with a linear string of syllables as the concatenative "segmental" units. The flow of vocalic gestures characterizing the sequence of syllable nuclei forms the base function of the articulatory event that fits in the prosodic structure of the utterance. On this base function, consonantal gestures are superimposed, basically in the way Ohman depicted in his consonantal perturbation model (see also Carre, R. & Chennoukh, S.). The base function is inherently multi-dimensional in the sense that different articulators such as the jaw opening, the tongue body advancing or retraction, and the lip rounding and protrusion, behave more or less independently from each other, and some of these dimensions, in particular, presumably, the mandible abduction/adduction, more directly reflect the prosodic structure. Onto this base function is superimposed consonantal gestures reflecting inherent characteristics of phonological features representing each syllable margin item, or more specifically, in the C/D model terminology, features of onset, coda, or syllable affix(es). The prosodic characteristics of an utterance are specified phonologically by a metrical tree (or some other symbolic representation). In the phonetic specification of the speech utterance, which we will need as the input for the C/D system, the metrical tree must be augmented by numeric annotations. The intricate relation between the symbolic, discrete phonological representation and the corresponding continuously variable phonetic characteristics of utterances of the given linguistic message in a given situation is thus explained by an explicitly described generative model of phonetic realization.