The first function deals with recognizing a word, the second with understanding the word's context in a sentence, and the third lets us articulate the word by speaking.

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They're automatic rules of the same sort we're going to talk about in the context of visual perception in that they're implicit and unconscious and not accessible to explicit understanding.

这些自动的规则,和我们将要讨论的视觉感知是类似的,因为它们都是内隐的,无意识的,也是无法清晰了解的

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