Author Question: Studies of speech perception show that a. speech sounds are transmitted one at a time, just as ... (Read 153 times)

jwb375 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

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.

Question 2

Coarticulation is the tendency

a. for phoneme pronunciation to vary slightly, depending on the surrounding phonemes.
b. to read more than one word at a time.
c. to transmit meaning as well as phoneme information in any given English sentence.
d. to use visual cues to help you interpret phonemes.