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contingency of choice
Notion that knowing you have heard one particular word depends on your having excluded other possible words.

Example:
Hearing the nasalisation on the vowel in 'spoon' makes it easier to recognise that word because it excludes words that don't end in a nasal consonant, like 'spook'.

Topic: Spoken word recognition