Regarding the to-be-ignored channel in a shadowing task, __________
a. participants rarely notice if the gender of the speaker is switched
b. participants rarely notice if a word is repeated 35 times
c. participants rarely notice if the speaker is replaced by a tone
d. participants typically notice if there is a change in the language being spoken
Answer: b
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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.
Suppose that you are watching a television talk show. The picture on your TV set is clear, but the sound is somewhat muffled. If the visual information helps you interpret some of the words that the talk-show host is saying, you are demonstrating
a. phonemic restoration b. the phonetic module. c. coarticulation. d. the McGurk effect.