【词汇大师】倾听词汇的旋律(1/2)

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TIPS
本篇听写只听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。听仔细些。
主持人的话① "How did you test this?"
HINTS
onomatopoeia
'buzz
essentially"There is a standard case of onomatopoeia where, you know, when you hear the word 'buzz,' it sort of very directly indicates what that word means. But in general the relationship between the sound of a word and what it refers to or what it means is sort of more arbitrary. But what we have found is that there is actually some information in the words themselves that can tell you whether the word is a noun or a verb, and that's something that people are sensitive to."
"We had people reading sentences on a computer screen, word by word, so one word at a time. And essentially they're just looking at a screen, they press the space bar and then a word will come up on the screen, and then another word when they press the space bar next. And we measure how long it takes them to read each word.
"And what we found was that when people are reading the nouns that were typical -- in terms of what they sound like -- of other nouns, then people would read these words faster than if you had a word, say a noun, that was more actually verb-like in what it sounds like."