An experimenter uses a computer to delete or mask a particular sound in a sentence in which the context clearly indicates what the missing sound should be. The experimenter then plays the sentence for participants and asks them what they just heard. The result is that the participants report ______.
A. being unable to understand the word that has one of its sounds masked
B. noticing that a sound is missing and correctly inferring what that sound is
C. hearing an unvoiced consonant in place of the masked sound
D. hearing the masked sound correctly, even though it is not actually present
Answer: D
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