An infographic shows the stages of language formation indicated by six building blocks and an example on the right side of each block. The stages are, Sound followed by Meanings, Rules (Grammar), Culture and Abstraction (bottom to top). The building blocks starting from the bottom, show phoneme or basic sound units (example, /d/ /i/ /s/ /a/ /g/ /r/ /ee/ /a/ /b/ /u/ /l); morpheme or the smallest unit of language which carries meaning (example, 3 morphemes of the word disagreeable, and change in meaning when one morpheme is changed); syntax or how words can be combined (for instance, I am agreeable versus Agreeable, I am) and semantics or the rules affecting meaning (for instance, He has an agreeable baby versus Baby, he is agreeable); pragmatics or social rules such as expression depicted by a photo of an pleasant looking waiter on the right; and the top-most block, displacement, which is the ability to refer to things not present (for example, "If you ask nicely, he might be agreeable.")