Music is a language and it is made up of a syntax, and syntax, you know, consists of phrases and the order in which those phrases occur.

音乐也是一种语言,由句法构成,而句法,你们知道的,就是乐句组合,以及这些乐句的组合顺序

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So, for instance, one example is there's no language in the world that ever constructs a question by switching the order of words around in a sentence.

举例来说,世界上并没有语言能够通过,改变句子中词的顺序,来构成疑问句

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