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Human speech differs ____ the cries of other species in many ways.

One very important distinction is that all other animals use one call for ____ message as the general principle of communication.

This means that the number of possible messages is very restricted. If a new message is to be included in the ____, a new sound has to be introduced, too.

____ the first few tens of sounds it becomes difficult to invent new distinctive sounds, and also to remember them for the next time they are needed.

____ speech builds on the principle of combining a restricted number of sounds into an unlimited number of messages. In a typical human language there are something like thirty or forty distinctive speech sounds.

These sounds can be combined into chains to form a ____ unlimited number of words.

Even a small child, who can ____ by only one word at a time, uses a system for communication that is infinitely superior to any system utilized by any other animal.

In animal cries, each call represents a different message, which limits the number of possible messages, whereas human ____ creates an unlimited number of messages using a finite set of distinctive sounds.

You may have noticed that language has a variety of ____ and potential uses.

Marvel for just a ____ at the flexibility, utility, and power of language as a set of tools.

Language can be used to describe the world or some part of it, pose problems, suggest solutions, ____ orders, make agreements, tell stories, tell jokes, sing songs, exchange greetings, buy things, sell things, make friends, insult enemies, and so on.

Can language be said to ____ any specific single, essential function amid all this variety?

____ that humans are social animals.

Our chances of survival and of flourishing are greatly enhanced by ____ with others of our kind.

We do much better in ____ than as individuals.

This places a high premium on cooperation and coordination with ____.

Thus the essential function, as well as the functional essence, of language would ____ to be communication.

____ exactly is communication?

Communication is ____ we do to achieve common understanding — essential to cooperation and coordination — among two or more sentient beings.

Texts ____ be interpreted, that is, analyzed for both explicit and implicit meanings.

Since it is impossible to know with ____ certainty what an author intends, one alternative is to discount the intentions of the author and concentrate on whatever meaning the text generates

As D. H. Lawrence ____ declared, “Never trust the teller, trust the tale.”

New Criticism in the twentieth century would reject the notion that deciphering an ____ intention is a central goal of literature.

Literature, they argued, is not a secret ____ planted by the author to be decoded but a dynamic field of multiple meanings, generated because of, despite, and indeed regardless of the author.

In this model, literature is a textual world that the author has set in motion but does not control; the reader ____ the text through interpretation.

It is fascinating to ____ an artist striving to achieve the right balance, but if we were to ask him why he did this or changed that, he might not be able to tell us.

He ____ not follow any fixed rules. He just feels his way.

It is true that some artists or critics in certain periods have tried to formulate laws of their art; but it always turned out that poor artists did not achieve anything when trying to apply these laws, while ____ masters could break them and yet achieve a new kind of harmony no one had thought of before.

When the great ____ painter Sir Joshua Reynolds explained to his students in the Royal Academy that blue should not be put into the foreground of paintings but should be reserved for the distant backgrounds, for the fading hills on the horizon, his rival Thomas Gainsborough —so the story goes — wanted to prove that such academic rules are usually nonsense.

He painted the famous ‘Blue Boy’, whose blue costume, in the ____ foreground of the picture, stands out triumphantly against the warm brown of the background.