105 Learning Journal # 1

[Rosemary Diaz]

After doing the readings, this knowledge helped me shape my language learning process because now I know that right-handed people have a dominant left hemisphere that is in charge mainly with language. When producing a speech its important to know how the brain processes the information, and that the brain does not issue motor commands one segment at a time. The "tongue slips" was interesting because it further explains the neurological processes of the brain regarding speech. Furthermore, knowing that different languages talk about the world in different ways helps shape my language learning experience because now I can better understand that the relationship between words and entities or concepts is all arbitrary since people see things differently than I do; thus, the words they use have different senses than how I would use them. The interaction between words and sentence structure is what conveys our 'sense of sense,' and this is important to know because words only make sense when they are used in a sentence. Therefore, it is important to know the sentence structure when learning a language in order to make sense of words because words in isolation can have many different meanings. Moreover, collocations is important because they are links between lexemes made by all who speak a language and they differ between languages. Also lexemes have sense relationships which include synonyms, antonyms, hyponymy, and incompatibility which help shape my language learning process because they help me with semantic analysis.