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This registration describes the design, data collection procedures, and planned analyses for a study that uses the phonemic restoration paradigm to assess (1) whether certain non-linguistic speech sounds (specifically, a cough) can bias the processing of ambiguous speech tokens related to the semantic meaning of those sounds (illness), and (2) whether a short-term, recent increase in lexical frequency of certain words (specifically of illness-related words, as a result of the COVID pandemic) can increase the likelihood of perceiving those words.