sentence comprehension
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsentenceandcomprehension
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sentence
noun[C]
uk/ˈsen.təns/us/ˈsen.təns/
a group of words, usually containing a verb, that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter ...
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comprehension
noun
uk/ˌkɒm.prɪˈhen.ʃən/us/ˌkɑːm.prəˈhen.ʃən/
the ability to understand completely and be familiar with a situation, ...
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(Definition ofsentenceandcomprehensionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsentence comprehension
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Verbal working memory insentencecomprehensionin children with specific language impairment.
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In the modular view,sentencecomprehensionoccurs in a series of distinct and independent stages.
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Rather, it appears that syntactic aspects of working memory are of major relevance duringsentencecomprehension, in particular when the sentence is syntactically complex.
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She is particularly interested in the disturbances tosentencecomprehensionand production that can arise in aphasia.
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Perhaps the most important question remaining is how perceptual discrimination abilities seen in infants translate intosentencecomprehensionabilities in young children.
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Sentencecomprehensionprocesses in specifically language impaired children.
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However, order errors are of more interest when trying to relate serial recall andsentencecomprehension.
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Subjects were informed that they were participating in an experiment onsentencecomprehension.
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Although researchers have demonstrated infants' sensitivity to a number of these cues, their effects on earlysentencecomprehensionhave been largely untested.
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Verbal working memory andsentencecomprehensionin children with specific language impairment.
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Such discrimination studies cannot tell us whether young learners actually employ grammatical and caregiver cues insentencecomprehension.
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Investigating individual differences in children's real-timesentencecomprehensionusing language-mediated eye movements.
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Alternatively, if prosody and grammatical morphemes each contribute independently tosentencecomprehension, there should be a main effect of each variable and no interaction.
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Or, are the bottom-up processes of lexical access completely encapsulated and thus unaffected by the top- down processes ofsentencecomprehension?
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Under these conditions conscious processing strategies dependent on frontoparietal systems may be recruited to augment normalsentencecomprehensionmechanisms.
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Making and correcting errors duringsentencecomprehension: eye movements in the analysis of structurally ambiguous sentences.
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In this model, sentence production andsentencecomprehensionare codependent but separate systems.
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However, at least for the domain ofsentencecomprehension, this perspective is promoted on the basis of sparse data.
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Reading requires that word recognition andsentencecomprehensionbe coordinated with the programming of saccades, as the eyes need to be near the to-be-identified words.
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