Discusion Post #3

[Hanchen Liu]

I prefer the method which first learn how to phonetically expression, in the order of  phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and fragment. Phonetics concern with actual physical sounds and language itself, but linguists put the importance on the patterns of language. As the article mentioned, the grammar is not just the word order but a structure-dependent operation. The types of language structure are quiet complicated. Not like English with rigid grammar rule, Chinese is much more “flexible” since we do not have past tense or future tense and the word orders in a sentence can be altered without changing in the meaning of the sentence. However, as linguist Chomsky pointed, all humans internalized language mechanisms are similar so that it is possible to find elements and constructions that are available to all languages. I think when I learn Korean, there must be similarities in both the sounds of language and the grammar rules between Chinese and Korean. And I will learn the sound patterns which can be based on alphabet, the word patterns and meaning patterns to compose a sentence.