It is also a form of language — a rendering of information.
Mr. Kugelberg brushes aside the question of whether the symbols are a form of language.
If the baby babbles mainly on the right, the researchers say, it means that babbling is a form of language.
Looking back on her long career, she says, she sees that dance, which served as a form of language dating to her childhood, is still her main voice.
Most of Boccaccio's compliments to ordinary folk are in the form of language — for example, his bright, piquant presentation of their slang.
Rather, he argued, Mr Sarkozy uses a "clear and real" form of language, which reflects his "proximity" and "spontaneity" with the people.
"Chemical signaling is a form of language," said one of the researchers, Dr. Noam Sobel, a professor of neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.
But whether Khoisan is closest to some ancestral form of language "is not something my method can speak to," Dr. Atkinson said.
The findings suggest that text messaging may be a unique form of language controlled by a distinct part of the brain.
Another is the vigorous debate that got under way on the appropriate form of language to be used in a regenerated Greece.
In her sculptures, installations and performances (sometimes as part of the artist group the 181), Donovan has often been preoccupied with the written form of language.
