I think language is not purely a biological phenomenon since nurture can also be a reason. Yet, I do agree that we are biologically capable of learning and speaking. The readings mentioned that the left hemisphere can be dominant in language for right-handed people. According to a theory, the Wernicke's area of the brain is good for comprehending speech and producing speech. A tongue split can affect how the speaker delivers their speech, such as accidentally switching the order of words because they sound similar.
I found what is the sense of words and not just their reference an interesting idea. It got me thinking that if I do learn the everyday words of the new language, I can also get a sense of the word instead of reference. These readings did inspire me to advance in my study of a foreign language because I am now curious about how words can be interpreted through many different meanings in the language.
The semantic and syntactic structure is how people conceptualize or process meaning. We understand a word through definition, but the way it is written in a sentence can help us better understand the meaning. This is all I understood from the reading. Hopefully, in class it can be clearer. Overall, the texts were good to follow. I have a question about why we have to categorize the lexemes. It is mentioned that the word's category can be interrelated, but they also said it has different meanings. Won't the different meanings be enough to distinguish between categories?
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