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madam-professor

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on: Jun 20, 2018
When the front part of a sentence can be interpreted more than one way, but the end of the sentence clarifies which meaning is correct, we say that the sentence is an example of
 
  a. parsing.
  b. temporary ambiguity.
  c. speech segmentation.
  d. lexical priming.

Question 2

Pollack and Pickett's experiment on understanding speech found that when participants were presented with individual words taken out of conversations (single words presented alone with no context), they could identify
 
  a. 100 of the words spoken by their own voices.
  b. 50 of the words spoken by their own voices.
  c. 50 of the words spoken by others with an accent similar to theirs.
  d. none of the words spoken by others.


pallen55

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

b


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