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Language is the most complex ability humans possess. Spoken words are highly organized patterns of motor activity. When they"re randomly uttered under influence of tourette"s they mean nothing more than other simple behaviours like tics. When organized into language they can communicate the complex steps of a surgical procedure. After sexual behaviour, communication is probably most important of all human social behaviours. Speaking and writing are social behaviours learned from other people and used to communicated with them. We use language as a tool in our remembering and thinking. Linguists study rules of language and what we do when we speak or write. Psycholinguistics - branch of psychology devoted to study of verbal behaviour. Concerned with human cognition more than the rules that describe language. They are interested in how children learn to speak from their interactions with adults. How language is acquired, used, and how verbal abilities interact with other cognitive abilities.

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