Language
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Language
Language is a combination of symbols that one user uses to place thoughts in the mind of another user of that language. If asked, why do you use language? Your answer would be as simple as, you speak because you desire to communicate. Surely, your answer would be true but the in depth of this would be that we speak because we want to convey our 'thoughts'.
This is where the brain enters. The human mind/brain is perhaps the most complex object in the universe, and we barely begin to comprehend the ways it is constituted and functions. Within it, language seems to occupy a central and a complex place.
Seldom, you may have wondered at your capacity to form phrases or sentences, speak smoothly or simply say what is on your mind. Still, you perhaps never gave much thought to why you have these abilities.
Let's take an example of a child who learns to speak and keenly absorbs signals from its environment...