SSS 2008-09-12
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(九)月
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ?
While I’m talking, you’re not just passively listening. Your brain is also busy at work, guessing the next word that I will sa…vor before I actually speak it. You thought I was gonna say “say”, didn’t you. Our brains actually consider many possible words—and their meanings—before we’ve heard the final sound of the word in quest…of being understood.
Language comes flying at you at up to five syllables 1 per second. So it was thought that listeners keep pace by anticipating a small subset of all words that the listener is familiar with. Think of how a Google search anticipates words based on the first few letters you type in. But now scientists have used functional 2 magnetic resonance 3 imaging to actually watch the brain consider different words. They report in the Proceedings 4 of the National Academy of Sciences that you narrow the choices by considering words that begin with the same sound. So if I say, “I tasted the sweetest can…your brain might already be priming itself to hear candy. Or maybe cantaloupe. But not candle. Who needs the Game Show Network? You’re always playing Match Game in your head.
Thanks for the minute for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
- a word with two syllables 双音节单词
- 'No. But I'll swear it was a name of two syllables.' “想不起。不过我可以发誓，它有两个音节。” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
- The telephone was out of order,but is functional now.电话刚才坏了，但现在可以用了。
- The furniture is not fancy,just functional.这些家具不是摆着好看的，只是为了实用。
- Playing the piano sets up resonance in those glass ornaments.一弹钢琴那些玻璃饰物就会产生共振。
- The areas under the two resonance envelopes are unequal.两个共振峰下面的面积是不相等的。
- He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
- to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼