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Language is an amazing phenomenon. Speech — the (36) of sounds to convey meaning — is a kind of human action. Like any other (37) repeated actions, speaking has to be learned. But once it is learned, it becomes a generally (38) and apparently automatic process.
As far as we can (39) , human beings do not need to be forced to speak. Most babies seem to (40) a sort of instinctive drive to produce (41) noises. How to speak and what to say are another matter (42) . These actions are learned from file particular society in which the baby is born; so that, like ail conduct and (43) that is learned from a society — from the people around us — speech is a patterned activity.
(44) into a few orderly patterns, accepted as meaningful by the people around him.
(45) However, a child born into a society with a pattern of language is encouraged o make a small selection of sounds.
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