Picture-story method was used and four theory-of-mind tasks,including first-order false belief,second-order false belief,interpretive theory of mind and faux pas understanding were carried out.

The operant definition of faux pas detection and understanding is whether an individual can recognize when someone unintentionally says something that would hurt or insult the other.

The present paper firstly introduces the principles of the method, and then reviews the application of the EEG coherence analysis in language comprehension studies at word processing level and sentence processing level.

Inhibition plays an important role in language comprehension.

Principle of Proximity in language understanding;

It integrates the technologies of speech recognition, natural language understanding, speech generation and dialogue management and applies the partial syntax analysis to the language understanding.

This paper investigates how to master the differences of cultural communication factors between Chinese and English,and acquire the accurate language understanding,thus attaining the purpose of linguistic and cultural communication.

Using moving window method to investigate the mode of information representation in language comprehension.

A Study on the Mental Process of Speech Comprehension and Its Implications in EFL Listening Teaching;

From the studies on speech comprehension(speech perception and word recognition),however,it shows that the two representation models for speech production have difficulties explaining the representation of homophones,especially of Chinese homophones.