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THE MENTAL PROCESS OF SPEECH COMPREHENSION LIBRARY

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Inner & Visual Structure

Proposition

Constituents as Psychological Reality

Strategies Comprehending a

Speech

Ambiguity

Storage Memory

Inner & Visual Structure

Man and the old woman still can play tennis

Interpretation : 1. The man is as old as the woman. 2. Only the woman who is old whereas

the man is not old as the woman.

2. Proposition 3. Constituents as Psychological Reality1. Constituents is a conceptually coherent whole.2. Cutting the group of words will affect our

comprehension.3. stored in memory is not the words that

regardless of the constituents, but the unity of the meaning of each constituent.

4. Strategies Comprehending a SpeechExample :He bought a pair of horse shoesHe bought a pair of alligator shoes“horse shoes” is a shoe which is worn by the horse while “alligator” is a shoe which is made from alligator leather.

Non-Literal Sentence ProcessingMetaphor is a word that expresses the equation something with something else even though the two are not the same.e.g. It’s raining cats and dogs.

We use strategies syntactic to understand an utterance

The word “person” can be syntactically collocate with old, big, stupid, etc. After we are identify first word from a constituent which we are heard, our mental process will start to look for others word which is correspond with the first word in that constituent.

we also can use semantic strategy to understand an utterance

If in a discourse we found word such as” we, they, or he”, we must look for antecedent for that word. For example: yesterday, I went to river with Luha and Nina. Suddenly, we looked a big snake.

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