book chapter · 2025
Understanding language
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Abstract This chapter explores the understanding of language. It explains that the language system is sensitive to the knowledge of the world and the plausibility of different situations. Any major delays in communication could lead to a backlog of processing operations and an eventual breakdown in communication. The chapter then provides an overview of the McGurk Effect, wherein visual information from the speaker’s face also helps listeners overcome variability in speech sounds as it serves as an additional source of information. Moreover, psycholinguists have proposed several language understanding models, such as the Garden-Path model of human parsing, the Good Enough Language Processing model, and Parallel Constraint-Based models.
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Ferreira, F. V. (2025). Understanding language. https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192886774.003.0002
Ferreira, Fernanda Vargas. “Understanding language.” 2025, pp. 16–30, https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192886774.003.0002.
Ferreira, Fernanda Vargas. 2025. “Understanding language.” https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192886774.003.0002.
Ferreira, F.V. (2025) ‘Understanding language’. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192886774.003.0002.
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