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emotional reaction. It is objective and social, connected to
thinking and the correspondence between thought and speech

characteristic of man is absent in other animals. We can say that
there are underline psychological processes in production of

language and language has a vital role in our society and life.
Productivity, Duality, and Creativity/Generativist Human
language is organized from limited number of sounds and these

sounds are discrete and identifiable. We have got the ability to
form words of different meanings from these and for that
purpose we have to identify the separate elements in words

which may seem the same except in few sounds or letters.
Sometimes there are new words added to the language which

underlines some deep meaning and is the part of the uniqueness
of human mind. So, a small number of phones can be combined
to form a very large number of words (the lexicon) and although

the lexicon is finite, they can be combined to form an infinite
number of possible utterances. This is called productivity or the

creative aspect of language (Chomsky). We can also be almost as
creative as we wish in forming new sentences. Probably, no one
has ever said

2. Language Sytematic

In other words, the combination of existing things and
new terminologies. Otherwise language is meaningless. Language

is a systematic/Conscious or Unconscious? The combining of
linguistic elements into larger units requires proper rules that are
acquired by the human brain. But, comprehension and production

also require certain mental processes and procedures. The first
step in language comprehension is to use the phonological

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