Deciding What You Heard When You Heard a Word That

Multiple Choice

Deciding what you heard when you heard a word that contained an ambiguous sound (e.g., it could have been either "dent" or "tent") is influenced by

A) both the immediate context following the word and the delayed context (words that come much later in the sentence) .
B) the immediate context following the word, but not the delayed context.
C) the delayed context, but not the immediate context.
D) only the sounds of the word itself, not the context surrounding those sounds.