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Human language is a unique, perfect and beautiful instrument of communication and cognition. It is unique because no other known living being possesses such a rich variety of phonetic, lexical and syntactical means of expressing themselves and in fact do not have a need to do so. It is perfect because it gives us a truly limitless capacity of shaping our thoughts, conveying our emotions, inventing fresh ideas, describing our experience, putting in a concise and consistent form our knowledge of the universe. The beauty of language is revealed in picturesque, vivid and elegant works of poetry and literature.
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Gelbukh, A., Kolesnikova, O. (2013). Introduction. In: Semantic Analysis of Verbal Collocations with Lexical Functions. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 414. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28771-8_1
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