How are the factors that allow us to comprehend verbal communication integrated?
A) All sources of information interact and are processed as soon as they become available.
B) Sources of information are processed in a serial manner, beginning with an analysis of the extralinguistic information and ending with a hypothesis about the syntactical structure of the sentence.
C) Sources of information are processed in a serial manner, beginning with a hypothesis about the meaning of the sentence and ending with an analysis of the syntactical structure of the sentence.
D) Sources of information are processed in a serial manner, beginning with a hypothesis about the meaning of the sentence and ending with an analysis of the extralinguistic nature of the sentence.

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The factors that allow us to comprehend verbal communication are integrated by processing all sources of information simultaneously as they become available. This includes analyzing the syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and extralinguistic cues such as tone of voice and body language. This integrated processing approach is known as interactive activation model of language processing. Option A best describes this process. Option B, C, and D suggest a serial processing approach, which is not how language processing works.

How Are the Factors That Allow Us to Comprehend Verbal