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A Strange Pattern in Certain Words Seems to Boost Your Reading Ability

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By David Sidhu
| ScienceAlert
Think about a word that looks like its meaning. For instance, the word bed kind of looks like a bed, with the vertical lines resembling the posts at either end. Loop looks very loopy. Some words are more subtly evocative – like blizzard, whose zigzagging letters might evoke something chaotic. The term for this is "iconicity" and it has typically been studied in the sounds of words. For example, the word meow resembles the sound of a cat. The word teeny sounds like something small.
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When words look like their meaning, we process them faster, new research reveals

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By David Sidhu, Lisa Lock, Andrew Zinin 
| Medical Xpress
The shape of the word bubble resembles the shape of an actual bubble, according to research participants. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Think about a word that looks like its meaning. For instance, the word bed kind of looks like a bed, with the vertical lines resembling the posts at either end. Loop looks very loopy. Some words are more subtly evocative—like blizzard, whose zigzagging letters might evoke something chaotic.
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When words look like their meaning, we process them faster, new research reveals

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By David Sidhu
| Inkl
The shape of the word bubble resembles the shape of an actual bubble, according to research participants. (Unsplash) Think about a word that looks like its meaning. For instance, the word bed kind of looks like a bed, with the vertical lines resembling the posts at either end. Loop looks very loopy. Some words are more subtly evocative — like blizzard, whose zigzagging letters might evoke something chaotic. The term for this is “iconicity” and it has typically been studied in the sounds of words.
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