Studies of Speech Perception Show That

question 50

Multiple Choice

Studies of speech perception show that

• A) speech sounds are transmitted one at a time, just as letters follow one another in writing.
• B) when the first phoneme of a word is being spoken, the mouth prepares to pronounce the next phoneme in the word.
• C) a phoneme's sound remains constant, no matter which phonemes precede and follow it.
• D) context is of little use in helping people determine the identity of a missing phoneme.

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