
32 Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction
an English speaker saying delicious while eating. In this case, you can
probably connect what you perceive to already stored information,
enabling you to understand what is being said.
Analyzed this way, understanding linguistic expressions can be seen
as a special case of understanding in general, which always involves
connecting input information to stored background information in
a meaningful way. The depth of understanding is dependent on the
extent to which such connections can be made, where more connections
mean increased depth of understanding. Understanding a phenomenon
means becoming ...