Which of the following students provides the most accurate summary about phoneme pronunciation, as discussed in the section on speech perception?
a. George: "Humans manage to perceive the phoneme intended by the speaker, even though phoneme pronunciation is quite variable."
b. Angela: "Humans tend to perceive phonemes inaccurately, but top-down processing helps to increase their accuracy."
c. Jakob: "Humans have great difficulty with phoneme perception, because most speakers have sloppy phoneme pronunciation."
d. Galit: "Each phoneme is pronounced in a consistent fashion, so that speech perception is remarkably accurate."
Ans: a
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