Question

(LAN) Nancy was conducting a study on recognizing words. She recorded people having conversations and then took one word out of the conversation and played it for different subjects. With the word removed the subjects performed poorly when asked to identify the word. However when Nancy provided her subjects with context to the conversation by asking ""What was the fifth word in that sentence"", the subjects could identify the word almost 100% of the time. What is NOT true about the findings of this type of study?

A. Speech is a straightforward concept that allows us to recognize sounds and words easily.
B. How clear speech is is an illusion
C. We are constantly using unconscious inferences to understand phonemes and sounds being said to us.
D. Recognizing words is hard without context and sounds are ambiguous.

Answer 1

The NOT true finding from Nancy's study is that speech is a straightforward concept that allows for easy recognition of sounds and words. Context is essential for word recognition, as speech clarity without it is largely an illusion, with our understanding relying on unconscious inferences.

Step-by-step explanation:

The findings of Nancy's study indicated that context plays a crucial role in the recognition of words. It is NOT true that speech is a straightforward concept that allows us to recognize sounds and words easily, as option A suggests. Recognizing words without context is difficult, and speech clarity is, in fact, more of an illusion. Instead, we frequently rely on unconscious inferences to comprehend the phonemes and sounds communicated to us, and speech becomes clearer when context is provided. This aligns more with options B, C, and D.