But accent, a few local words and a tiny few grammar differences (like you/y'all/youse), do not hinder comprehension enough to make Kentuckyan or Brooklynese "languages".What about the Chinese case?
When my first-grade teacher reported that I could read "fluently enough, but without much comprehension," she took it up with the school.
A small frequency bandwidth is enough to maintain speech comprehension as in telephone transmission, where the bandwidth used is [300 to 3000 Hz] [9].
There was nothing stronger than lemonade and strange ideas fueling a conversation between a pair of lapsed physics majors and a health and psychology writer, but that was enough to cause a perfect comprehension of the cosmos to elude us.
I can actually comprehend more than I can speak, and my comprehension is good enough to know that many of the things I'm saying in a meeting aren't being translated properly since some ideas just don't translate well.
Even though the intent of the help notes was facilitating the subjects' understanding regarding the questions, they might not have been enough to allow for correct comprehension.
We're not talking about a major difficulty here, but just enough to induce a hiccup in comprehension, letting the physical facts of the painting preside.
If a student's reading comprehension isn't strong enough to make sense of the instructions, test-prep is probably not going to turn him into a star.
These general models include in the domain of concepts only enough concepts to make these instances of comprehension true.
Indeed, it has been shown that comprehension relies on a "good enough" representation rather than on the precise analysis of each word (Christianson, Hollingworth, Halliwell, & Ferreira, 2001; Ferreira, Bailey, & Ferraro, 2002; Sturt, Sanford, Stewart, & Dawydiak, 2004).
