According to Marslen-Wilson and Tyler's (1980)cohort model of word recognition,
A)word recognition processes in speech are triggered as soon as the very first speech sound in a word is perceived.
B)word recognition processing begins only after all of the sounds that make up a word have been perceived.
C)word recognition depends on the ability to match sounds directly to word representations in memory.
D)words can be identified based on their prosodic information alone.

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The cohort model suggests that when a person hears the first speech sound in a word, all words in their mental lexicon that start with that sound become activated. As more sounds are heard, words that do not match what has been heard so far are eliminated, leaving only words that fit the sounds heard up to that point. Therefore, the word recognition process in speech is triggered as soon as the first speech sound in a word is perceived.

According to Marslen-Wilson and Tyler's (1980)cohort Model of Word Recognition