In “How the Brain Handles Languages,” the author talked about learning a new language requires different brain areas because a single area of brain relates to a single behavioral ability, such as vision or speech, which is known as localization. Once we mastered one language, a snatch of dialogue takes place so quickly that we forgot how complicated the neurological planning and execution involved in the process. In speaking, it is the vocabulary which most people associate with the notion of sense.
However, one word often has different meaning in different occasions, even if different tonality can refer to different meaning. Also, some thinks that words are intrinsically connected with the meaning while other do no. I think it depends on the language. Some words such as describing the sound of animal does connect to the meaning.
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