When carlos moved to the united states, he did not understand any english. Phrases like "anna mary can pi and i scream class hic
k" didn't make any sense to him. Now that carlos has been learning english, he recognizes this phrase as "an american pie and ice cream classic." this example illustrates that carlos was not capable of ____ in english?
'Speech segmentation' is demonstrated as the process of identifying and recognizing the affiliation between the words, phonemes, as well as syllables employed in specific spoken language. It focuses on the context and emphasizes their study as a whole in order to promote a lexical meaning.
In the given situation, Carlos was incapable of '<u>speech segmentation</u>' as he could not understand the lexical and contextual meaning of the phrase and failed to understand its meaning as a whole. Therefore, <u>since he read the words in isolation and not as a whole, he was inefficient in 'speech-segmentation'. </u>
