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Top-down factors in discerning spoken word boundaries include:
 
  a) previous knowledge of what the speaker is talking about.
   b) metrical segmentation.
   c) statistical regularities in the spoken word signal.
   d) mondegreens.

Question 2

Nygaard and Queen (2008) found that the emotional prosody of word pronunciation:
 
  a) had no effect on word recognition.
   b) facilitated word recognition, but only when the emotional prosody matched the tone of the word.
   b) facilitated word recognition, but only when the emotional prosody mismatched the tone of the word.
   b) facilitated word recognition in all cases.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: a

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Answer: b





 

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