Imagine that you were a participant in William Ganong's 1980 study, and you were asked to report whether you heard the word bid or pid when presented with an ambiguous phoneme sound between /b/ and /p/ at the start of _id. You would

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According to William Ganong's study, participants were found to be biased towards perceiving the ambiguous phoneme sound between /b/ and /p/ as belonging to the word category that would result in a real word. This means that if the phoneme was followed by "id," participants were more likely to report hearing "bid" as opposed to "pid." Therefore, choice C is the best answer.

Imagine That You Were a Participant in William Ganong's 1980