Your Textbook States That Phonemic Restoration Is a Kind of Illusion

question 14

Multiple Choice

Your textbook states that phonemic restoration is a kind of illusion. This statement is true because

• A) we think that we hear boundaries between words, even when a physical boundary does not really exist.
• B) we think that we are accurate when we replace a missing phoneme, but we typically make many errors.
• C) we make too much use of bottom-up processing.
• D) we think that we hear a speech sound, even if it is not present in the distal stimulus.

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