- In the Aitchison's Linguistics diagram, the center of the diagram focuses on the study of human speech sounds and expands towards phonology, syntax, semantics and so on. For my target language of Nepali, I am currently focusing on relearning Nepali primarily by beginning with phonetics, since that is the foundation that I am familiar with and something that I can build on from. In terms of combining different disciplinary perspectives I think it is important to combine the .
- In terms of how this reading has changed the trajectory of my learning plan, it definitely made me think about how morphology will play into my learning plan. In many ways the word structure of Nepali and English are very similar but similarly, they tend to naturally be different in various other ways. With Nepali I remember sentence and word structures were something that needed getting used to and I plan on adding a small section that gives me a refresher on those as well. This allows me to expand further on the syntax and semantics as well. In terms of "meaning", this is something that I will need to work on further. Like in many other languages, meaning can be derived differently based on the topic of choice or the context involved and I think I will first need to work on my analysis of that context in order for me to understand the meaning properly.
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