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From the Ted Talk by Gareth Gaskell: How do our brains process speech?

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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This suggests that every time we hear a word there’s a brief explosion of meanings in our minds, and by the recognition _____ the brain has settled on one interpretation. The recognition process moves more rapidly with a sentence that gives us context than in a random ______ of words. Context also helps guide us towards the ________ meaning of _____ with multiple interpretations, like "bat," or "crane," or in cases of homophones like "no" or "know." For ____________ people, the language they are listening to is another cue, used to eliminate potential words that don’t match the ________ context.

Solution

  1. string
  2. point
  3. language
  4. multilingual
  5. words
  6. intended

Original Text

This suggests that every time we hear a word there’s 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 "no" or "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.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
sign language 2
processing unit 2

Important Words

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  3. context
  4. cue
  5. eliminate
  6. explosion
  7. guide
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  11. intended
  12. interpretation
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  14. language
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  16. match
  17. meaning
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  22. multiple
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  24. point
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  29. recognition
  30. sentence
  31. settled
  32. string
  33. suggests
  34. time
  35. word
  36. words