Pollack and Pickett's experiment on understanding speech found that when participants were presented with individual words taken out of conversations (single words presented alone with no context),they could identify
A)100% of the words spoken by their own voices.
B)50% of the words spoken by their own voices.
C)50% of the words spoken by others with an accent similar to theirs.
D)none of the words spoken by others.

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Pollack and Pickett's experiment found that participants were only able to identify 50% of the individual words taken out of conversations, regardless of whether the words were spoken by their own voice or someone else's. This suggests that context plays a crucial role in our ability to understand speech.

Pollack and Pickett's Experiment on Understanding Speech Found That When