Young children pick up language, patterns of speech, ways to respond, meaning in image and word.

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In the absence of a written language, these patterns record the history and legends of Li culture as well as aspects of worship, taboos, beliefs, traditions and folkways.

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Mr Clarke said many of the patterns used in British sign language were the same in Welsh, but there were differences in the way certain patterns were structured when adapted for use in the Welsh language.

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Beyond space, time and causality, patterns in language have been shown to shape many other domains of thought.

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In her book The Language of Female Leadership, Dr. Judith Baxter discussed her study of how language is used in senior executive and boardroom meetings to understand power patterns.

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There's something about rhyme, about formal patterns of accents, about parallelism in grammatical structure -- they give language a kind of magic and permanence.

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Terence McKenna, in his book "Food of the Gods, " wrote about the origins of human language: this unique, often ecstatic expression of consciousness that bursts forth as morsels of meaning encoded as vocal patterns.

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