Sunday, November 16, 2008
Language Comprehension, Again
I think all aspects are very important to language comprehension. Without uniform syntax, vocabulary, and sound, it becomes extremely difficult to understand each other in conversation. While I still do not believe that syntax is as important as the other two it would be wrong to completely ignore its helpfulness in understanding and being able to communicate. If we structure a sentence incorrectly, it could mean the exact opposite of what was intended. However, you can easily link together ideas without strict rules of sentence structure if you have a solid vocabulary. Finally, sound is crucial to language comprehension. While, we can compensate for accents and be able to understand them that is only to a certain extent and we do not always have the necessary time to accommodate to a different accent or pronunciation. If a sound is completely different then you can only understand the conversation from the context of the sentence, and you can only do that if you understand the other words in the sentence (vocabulary) and how they are all related to each other by the sentence structure (syntax). Therefore, all three are interrelated and if one is off the others help you compensate for that deviation.
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