Abstract:Background: Although subject to much variation, the anatomy of language comprehension has become increasingly clear with the advent of fMRI; however, the steps of speech comprehension remain elusive. There are two main theories of language processing – hierarchical and sequential (or probabilistic). According to the hierarchical theory, sentences are broken down (e.g. sentence to words to syllables to phonemes) and then reconstructed while syntactic and semantic meanings are attached. Sequential theory suggest… Show more
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