In the Study in Which Participants Were Presented with Sentences

question 18

Multiple Choice

In the study in which participants were presented with sentences where a phoneme had been cut out and replaced with a cough, the results showed that the participants:

• A)Correctly identified the exact phoneme that was missing from the sample
• B)Could detect that a general sound was missing from the sample
• C)Could not detect that a sound was missing from the sample
• D)Reported that the deleted phoneme was not restored after they knew it was missing
• E)Correctly located the area in which the cough appeared in the speech

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