Miguel Is Taking an Introductory French Course and Has to Complete

question 189

Multiple Choice

Miguel is taking an introductory French course and has to complete several oral comprehension labs. These involve listening to audio recordings of French conversations while writing down everything that is said. Although he can recognize most of the French vocabulary words when they're already written down, Miguel finds it extremely difficult to understand when those words are said by the people in the recordings. His biggest obstacle seems to be breaking up the audio into singular coherent words. What process is Miguel struggling with?

• A)inductive logic
• B)phonemics
• C)speech segmentation
• D)pragmatics
• E)deductive logic

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