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.
Ans: d
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