Context also helps guide us towards the intended meaning of words with multiple interpretations

This suggests that every time we hear a word there a brief explosion of meanings in our minds,and by the recognition point the brain has settled on one interpretation.The recognition process moves more rapidly with a sentence that gives us context than in a random string of words.Context also helps guide us towards the intended meaning of words with multiple interpretations, like bat,or crane,or in cases of homophones like noor know.For multilingual people, the language they are listening to is another cue,used to eliminate potential words that don't match the language context.