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There has been a revolution in thinking about language,, based on the revolution in our knowledge of human biology. In the old days, it was thought you learned a language by being exposed to, and mimicking as many examples of sounds, forms, and words, until you had a big enough collection of them to parrot back in some way set phrases. That neglects the fact that the number of possible sentences or statements in any given language is infinite. You could never learn them all, nor has anyone ever done so. Instead it became clear that there is root structure, deep structure, in many ways common to all languages of any kind, expressed in a way peculiar to the language in question, and which is in turn based on biological structures of the human body. Things we say are structured, woven together, according to underlying analogous patterns, that are intertwined with the situation we are trying to communicate in. Seen this way, language consists not just of rows of sounds, but woven webs of signs pulled together in a way that the partner understands new information in the way the utterance is passed on to him/her by the speaker. Only a holistic approach to language can ever succeed. It's not just words that make a language but what's happening between them that is the communication.