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jenna1 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Suppose that you are reading a journal article that supports the special mechanism approach to speech perception. Which of the following statements would you be most likely to see?

a. Humans have an inborn ability that helps them perceive speech sounds.
b. Humans can perceive speech sounds especially well when the sounds are accompanied by music.
c. Speech perception operates in the same way as visual perception.
d. We can remember spoken sentences better than printed sentences.

Question 2

If you favor the general mechanism approach to speech perception, you would argue that

a. people process speech sounds the same way that they process other kinds of sounds.
b. humans have a special phonetic module that handles all general speech perception tasks.
c. the McGurk effect does not support the general mechanism approach, but most other research supports this approach.
d. people use categorical perception when listening to a language sound; they do not use categorical perception on other cognitive tasks.