CTET PAPER II 2019 · PYQ · Listening / Bottom-up Processing · medium
Bottom-up processing in listening is to
Answer
The correct answer is A: decode messages moving from sounds to words, phrases, clauses and other grammatical elements to sentences.. Bottom-up processing in listening starts from the smallest units (sounds/phonemes) and builds upward through words, phrases, clauses, and grammatical elements to whole sentences and meaning. This is the opposite of top-down processing (option 2) which…
A.decode messages moving from sounds to words, phrases, clauses and other grammatical elements to sentences.✓ Correct
B.decode the overall messages of the discourse and move down the micro level units.
C.encode all the sounds from speaker to listener.
D.use multiple ways to decode the messages.
Explanation
Bottom-up processing in listening starts from the smallest units (sounds/phonemes) and builds upward through words, phrases, clauses, and grammatical elements to whole sentences and meaning. This is the opposite of top-down processing (option 2) which starts from overall meaning/context. Option 1 correctly describes the directional flow of bottom-up processing from micro to macro level.
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