Author Question: Your textbook states that phonemic restoration is a kind of illusion. This statement is true because ... (Read 83 times)

Jramos095 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Your textbook states that phonemic restoration is a kind of illusion. This statement is true because

a. we think that we hear boundaries between words, even when a physical boundary does not really exist.
b. we think that we are accurate when we replace a missing phoneme, but we typically make many errors.
c. we make too much use of bottom-up processing.
d. we think that we hear a speech sound, even if it is not present in the distal stimulus.

Question 2

The o sound in the word dog influences the position of your mouth when you pronounce the remainder of the word. This phenomenon is called

a. the McGurk effect.
b. categorical perception.
c. phonemic restoration.
d. coarticulation.