Miller also researched how people understood words and sentences, the same problem faced by artificial speech-recognition technology.

You teach it for the purpose of having students understand sentences.

Because they have trouble in connecting sounds of language to the letter of words, this may result difficulty in understanding sentences.

To illustrate what is meant by "understanding" words and sentences, let us take instances of various situations.

They can understand sentences and tell if they are grammatical or not.

A child may understand separate sentences taken from a work of philosophy, but the whole he will not grasp.

One question in the realm of language comprehension is how people understand sentences as they read (also known as sentence processing).

In two days he could understand simple sentences.

But only humans can create and understand new sentences never before heard.

Traditionally, these aspects of processing have concentrated on an analysis of the way in which people understand and produce sentences.