verbal comprehension

collocation in English

meaningsofverbalandcomprehension

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verbal
adjective
uk
/ˈvɜː.bəl/us
/ˈvɝː.bəl/
spoken rather ...
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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 ofverbalandcomprehensionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These findings were corroborated by a number of laboratory-based measures of grammatical competence including estimated mean length of utterances,verbalcomprehension, and repetition of sentences.
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No such improvements were found in visual short-term memory, problem-solving ability, cognitive speed, arithmetic, orverbalcomprehension.
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Simulating and accessing poorverbalcomprehensionin a case of progressive verbal aphasia.
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The measures were selected to ensure that samples were of average nonverbal ability and to enable matching of groups on indices ofverbalcomprehensionand expression.
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The results of this study indicated that the level ofverbalcomprehensionwas the significant predictive factor for subsequent language development (tested between 44 and 48 months of age).
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Attention has been regarded as an important factor in the healthy functioning of encoding,verbalcomprehensionand new learning.
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This includes difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, processing speed, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, language skills/verbalcomprehension, and/or rapid naming.
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These categories were numerical, reasoning, spatial, perceptual, memory, verbal fluency andverbalcomprehension.
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He did not have eitherverbalcomprehensiondeficits nor peripheral hearing problems (p. 107).
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