If You Favor the General Mechanism Approach to Speech Perception

question 79

Multiple Choice

If you favor the general mechanism approach to speech perception, you would argue that

• A) people process speech sounds the same way that they process other kinds of sounds.
• B) humans have a special phonetic module that handles all general speech perception tasks.
• C) the McGurk effect does not support the general mechanism approach, but most other research supports this approach.
• D) people use categorical perception when listening to a language sound; they do not use categorical perception on other cognitive tasks.

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