When he switched to whistled Turkish, however, the participants understood both syllables in roughly equal measure, suggesting that both hemispheres played significant roles in the early stages of comprehension.
However, until recently few studies have explored how these techniques guide the attentional processes that affect the earliest stages of comprehension (Loschky et al., 2015).
Note that we assume that intelligibility includes all stages of comprehension over and above early acoustic processing, and as such the intelligibility responses that we see likely reflect multiple processes including acoustic phonetic, semantic, and syntactic processing, and associated representations.
The fourth stage consisted of comprehension tests that were conducted with 9 other parents, to confirm that the questionnaire was comprehensive, understandable, relevant and well-accepted by parents.
Similar to the cognitive ability subset, the listening strategy subset consists of three scales – planning, execution, evaluation and repair, corresponding to the cognitive processing stages of listening comprehension.
It is possible that processing at later stages is necessary for parsing and understanding a meaningful sentence and that it is these stages of the comprehension process that are reflected by long-latency event-related neurophysiological responses.
Thus, the design of this experiment can identify dissociable effects of syntactic complexity at the stages of online comprehension and post hoc reanalysis, testing whether they rely on the same brain areas.
For example, Marinkovic and colleagues (2003) investigated the stages of word comprehension in real time in the auditory and visual modalities as subjects participated in semantic judgements for written and spoken words.
One stage of the film comprehension process that might be critical to this apparently effortlessness is how the eyes move across the screen.
Although vocabulary knowledge and syntactic knowledge are both involved in the perception stage of the listening comprehension process, the difference between the two knowledge types lies in the fact that lexical knowledge is meaning-laden and syntactic knowledge is function-based with regards to how words may be combined in sentences, phrases, or utterances (Rost 2013).
For each item, the table contained a row for each stage of question response (comprehension, retrieval, judgement, response), with additional rows for acceptability and other comments.
