The research on speech perception demonstrates that
a. each phoneme has a unique but consistent pronunciation.
b. context can be used to identify a missing vowel, but not a missing consonant.
c. people use visual cues from the speaker's mouth in order to perceive an ambiguous sound.
d. listeners typically perceive a solid stream of language, without any breaks in the stream.
Ans: c
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