Omer Genosar
In these readings, I focused on how the section about neurolinguistic processing in How the Brain Handles Languages chapter correlated with the distinguishing the "real world" of semantics in How We Mean. This reading was really interesting because it shows just how little is known and how much there is still to be learned about the brain in regards to language. For example, bridging the gap between the meanings of words and the neurotransmitters in our brain is a huge challenge. How do we hear something and take the conventional meaning of words instead of the natural meaning. If we think about it even more deeply, how did we evolve to where we are now? Did the early homo genus use the natural meaning of words such as ruff ruff and give it meaning? If so then it is incredible that our brains can handle and insert meaning to a language. Additionally, this reading has taught me that one good way to learn a language is if we understand a sentence as a sum of different parts, and that each part will have meaning within a sentence.
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