When Warren (1970)asked subjects to listen to a sentence in which a letter was replaced by a tone,very few subjects even knew that the letter was missing.This phenomenon is called the _____ effect.
A) phoneme-restoration
B) word superiority
C) sentence-context
D) stimulus-driven

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The phenomenon described, in which subjects are able to "fill in" missing phonemes in a sentence due to contextual cues, is known as phoneme-restoration. This effect was demonstrated in Warren's (1970) study in which subjects were able to understand sentences even when a letter was replaced with a tone. Therefore, choice A is the correct answer. Choices B, C, and D do not accurately describe the phenomenon.

When Warren (1970)asked Subjects to Listen to a Sentence in Which