Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h6KDZS702054; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:35:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:35:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4148BB44.1C24B115.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2440] Re: Syntax X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 894 Lines: 13 Dear Allen, Believe me,I want to learn and understand as much as possible, too, so your questions are most welcome. Only like is said, I have only "narrow" answers and questions. Normal speech has precious little spoken syntax--most is understood or conveyed by gestures. Writing fills in the rest. Of course the bathroom non-sentence could change according to context. The syntax is there, but scrambled, we can figure it out fairly quickly because we know English syntax. Writing/speaking are human products, so you can't separate them from people. Syntax both creates meaning and conveys meaning from writer/speaker to reader/listener. All these aspects of syntax and language can be explored in lessons. The main point is the understanding of written meaning, and meaning is syntax, can't get round it. We don't read for phonemes we read for meaning. But phonemes help. Andrea
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