Often Extraneous Noise Interferes with Our Ability to Hear All

Multiple Choice

Often extraneous noise interferes with our ability to hear all speech sounds. If a brief burst of noise prevents a phoneme from being heard (e.g., "His *ame is Barry") , what is most likely to occur?

A) The listener will not understand the sentence.
B) The listener will be able to understand the sentence and will not realize that the burst of noise occurred.
C) The listener will be able to understand the sentence and will realize that a burst of noise occurred but will not know where the burst occurred.
D) The listener will be able to understand the sentence, will realize that a burst of noise occurred, and will know exactly which phoneme was missing.