Tones only occasionally change when the word has a different part of speech. You could count the words in modern use with such patterns on one hand. Most words have no phonetic change even if part of speech changes.
I speak Chinese, and wonder what exactly you mean. Phonology is not exactly syntactically or grammatically significant, more semantically significant-- it being a tonal language and such. And the variety of grammars does not undermine this theory of Chomsky per se.
That is to say, if Chomsky were right we wouldn't necessarily have very good computerized translation software. For one, we really have no basic understanding of the language sections of the brain, or how humans really deal with language, or even how much of our ability is something other mammals can grasp. The proof or disproof of these theories seems far off.
The summary, not the actual article, is the false bit, since it says you will not be able to use and will in fact lose all puchased music "when & if you leave the U.S." That statement is false.
I not only used the iTunes music store from Taiwan when visiting there, but I set up my account and purchased all my first songs there. All you need is a *billing* address in the US that matches your name, and APple will leavce you alone.
Slander!
I'm sure that if you did a search in Chinese you would get more results. Although I'm not sure if they have a character for the disease... I don't know anything about Chinese, really.
There are characters for the disease. It's a transliteration/translation (Ai-zi-bing). And you'll probably be less than thrilled to learn that the results when searching for them though-- 9 hits (with 63 news articles linked up top), but at least they all appear to be related to AIDS prevention.
"and thanks to the government, i can find both of the websites about aids [chinasearch.com.cn]
this is just scary."
No joke, considering both links lead to ONE link, which is actually to a Taizhou city based company which manufactures AIDS products among other things.
That there's very little that's been new in almost 100 years? The only *new* things my Grandpa's ever seen in most of his life is television and a computer-- and he doesn't really use it. He had an iron when he was little-- and it was made of iron. He put it on the stove to heat it up and iron the clothes.
In fact, as far as my grandfather's concerned, outside of biological innovations (which certainly effect our lives quite a bit), his life isn't much different than it was when he was growing up. He wakes up, eats food (that he cooked on a stove and took out of a refrigerator), gets dressed (now with clothes mad ewith slave labor), goes and waters his yard (now using a mass produced plastic watering can instead of a metal one), drives to work (in a car-- much different than the cars of the 1920s and '30s, but still just a car), comes home and does everything else he would have done before.
As much as technology is affecting my life and how I interact with family, and how I keep in touch, it's not affecting the whole world, or even many Americans.
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Tones only occasionally change when the word has a different part of speech. You could count the words in modern use with such patterns on one hand. Most words have no phonetic change even if part of speech changes.
I speak Chinese, and wonder what exactly you mean. Phonology is not exactly syntactically or grammatically significant, more semantically significant-- it being a tonal language and such. And the variety of grammars does not undermine this theory of Chomsky per se. That is to say, if Chomsky were right we wouldn't necessarily have very good computerized translation software. For one, we really have no basic understanding of the language sections of the brain, or how humans really deal with language, or even how much of our ability is something other mammals can grasp. The proof or disproof of these theories seems far off.
The summary, not the actual article, is the false bit, since it says you will not be able to use and will in fact lose all puchased music "when & if you leave the U.S." That statement is false.
I not only used the iTunes music store from Taiwan when visiting there, but I set up my account and purchased all my first songs there. All you need is a *billing* address in the US that matches your name, and APple will leavce you alone. Slander!
There are characters for the disease. It's a transliteration/translation (Ai-zi-bing). And you'll probably be less than thrilled to learn that the results when searching for them though-- 9 hits (with 63 news articles linked up top), but at least they all appear to be related to AIDS prevention.
"and thanks to the government, i can find both of the websites about aids [chinasearch.com.cn] this is just scary." No joke, considering both links lead to ONE link, which is actually to a Taizhou city based company which manufactures AIDS products among other things.
That there's very little that's been new in almost 100 years? The only *new* things my Grandpa's ever seen in most of his life is television and a computer-- and he doesn't really use it. He had an iron when he was little-- and it was made of iron. He put it on the stove to heat it up and iron the clothes. In fact, as far as my grandfather's concerned, outside of biological innovations (which certainly effect our lives quite a bit), his life isn't much different than it was when he was growing up. He wakes up, eats food (that he cooked on a stove and took out of a refrigerator), gets dressed (now with clothes mad ewith slave labor), goes and waters his yard (now using a mass produced plastic watering can instead of a metal one), drives to work (in a car-- much different than the cars of the 1920s and '30s, but still just a car), comes home and does everything else he would have done before. As much as technology is affecting my life and how I interact with family, and how I keep in touch, it's not affecting the whole world, or even many Americans.