Deciding What You Heard When You Heard a Word That

question 186

Multiple Choice

Deciding what you heard when you heard a word that contained an ambiguous sound (e.g., it could have been either "dent" or "tent") is influenced by

• A) both the immediate context following the word and the delayed context (words that come much later in the sentence).
• B) the immediate context following the word, but not the delayed context.
• C) the delayed context, but not the immediate context.
• D) only the sounds of the word itself, not the context surrounding those sounds.

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