ABSTRACT
Both oral and written languages typically are considered to be highly rational, forms of communication. Yet the ways we speak and write often emerge from highly intuitive perceptual processes that influence how we live, communicate, and think. Grammatical patterns and organizational structures of language may be rational and logical. Yet patterns of sound, inflection, rhythm, and cadence, as well as such figures (note use of the term figure) of speech as metaphor, emerge from highly intuitive cognitive processes.
