Although comprehension or reading age are the most common measures of reading performance in education, in vision science and the neurosciences in general, reading speed is the most common metric of reading.
The disorder of agrammatic aphasia (or agrammatism), the focus of this article, is classically characterised as a non-fluent aphasia, with associated "telegraphic" speech, word order and morphological errors and reduced ability to produce verbs, although comprehension remains relatively intact (see for example, Goodglass, Kaplan, & Barresi, 2001; Marshall, 2002).
This was expected as knowledge-level items should not be highly influenced by one's reasoning ability, although comprehension-level items have been found to be influenced somewhat by reasoning ability (Lawson et al., 2000).
This time our tour leader spoke only Spanish, and although our comprehension was rudimentary, we made out most of what he explained.
In practice I was able to hit about 500 words per minute although the comprehension was a bit scattered.
Although Class Comprehension and Limitation of Size appear to tell us exactly what classes there are and what sets there are, more axioms are required to make our universe large enough.
Although the comprehension approach provides listeners with experiences and massive exposure to the target language, pre-set multiple-choice questions restrict the information that listeners are allowed to respond to and undermine the authenticity of language use in real-life situations (Field 2008).
Although our comprehension of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and virulence factors of S. pneumoniae has improved in recent years, the basis for whether colonization with a specific strain establishes asymptomatic colonization or produces local or invasive diseases requires further elucidation.
Although auditory verbal comprehension in Wernicke's aphasia has been most commonly studied, a long parallel literature has examined stroke patients with 'multimodal' semantic deficits (semantic aphasia; Head, 1926; Luria, 1973).
A recent proteomics analysis in hibernating arctic ground squirrels suggested that the high increment of albumin levels is not a passive response to the dehydration that naturally accompanies hibernation, but a finely regulated process, although the comprehension of the underlying molecular machinery remains unclear (Shao et al. 2010).
Although different reading comprehension levels can be identified in different taxonomies, they all characterize the demands of the tasks where reading comprehension is the underlying latent factor (Basaraba et al. 2013; Ozuru et al. 2008).
