Imagine that you are conducting research into speech perception.You have just conducted an experiment in which participants watched you saying monosyllabic sounds while the participants listened to someone else's voice over headphones.The voice they were listening to sometimes matched the sounds that you were saying, but sometimes the voice over the headphones did not match what you were saying.Your participants reported hearing the sounds that they saw you utter, even when the voice in the headphones did not match what you were actually saying.Your results provide support for a ______ theory of speech perception.
A)general-mechanism
B)phoneme
C)motor
D)special-mechanism

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The results support the motor theory of speech perception, which suggests that people perceive speech by identifying the motor movements involved in producing the sounds, rather than just the auditory signals.

Imagine That You Are Conducting Research into Speech Perception