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vicky · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

The theorists who argue for a special mechanism approach to speech perception emphasize that humans have a special-purpose portion of the brain that makes speech perception easier. They call this special mechanism a

a. phonemic restoration unit.
b. coarticulation device.
c. phonetic module.
d. categorical perception module.

Question 2

Which of the following students best summarizes the information about visual cues and speech perception?

a. Dawan: Adults who have normal hearing often fail to appreciate the visual cues, even though these cues are helpful.
b. Cheryl: Surprisingly, adults can perceive speech just as accurately without visual cues as they can with visual cues.
c. Ralph: Adults cannot distinguish among the visual cues associated with the phonemes, so they do not link these cues with the auditory stimuli.
d. Tiffany: Although children pay attention to these visual cues, adults do not.