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s.tung

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According to the discussion of phoneme perception,
 
  a. this task is not very challenging because of context cues.
  b. this task is not very challenging because each phoneme is pronounced in such a standard fashion.
  c. this task is challenging because the English language has over 200 distinct phonemes.
  d. this task is challenging because of the variability in speakers' pronunciation of phonemes.

Question 2

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.



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blakeserpa

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Answer to Question 1

Ans: d

Answer to Question 2

Ans: a




s.tung

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


miss.ashley

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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