The author in How to Investing Language Structure started his statement with a simple example: Where is the station. Even it is only a short spoken sentence, several things are taking place at one. By illustrating this example, the author set up three main levels of enquiry which are semantics, grammar and medium of linguistic transmission. However, compared with this organization, I prefer the four level models of language which are phonetics, phonology, grammar and semantics since this applies to my target language, Korean. The Korean alphabet consists of the sounds of hangul, so if you combine different consonants and vowels, you will get a different sound. Afterin being organized, these sound will become words. And I also agree with the author's point that the aim of grammar is to give structure to meaning and so decides to start the next chapter with semantics. No one will explore the meaning or the reason behind of something when he knows nothing about how it works.
After reading this article, I am more clear about the language structure and the importance of every part that takes place even in a short sentence. Even though the grammar of Korean is slightly different with Chinese, there are many similarities between them and I believe they will help me a lot.
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