Though he spoke no English,Miguel emigrated to the United States for a job.At first,conversations of native English speakers seemed to him to run together into one long word,but now he can hear where each word begins and ends.This process is called
A) morphophonemics.
B) phonemics.
C) speech segmentation.
D) pragmatics.

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Speech segmentation refers to the ability to break down a continuous stream of speech into individual words. This is what Miguel has learned to do over time, as he can now hear where each word begins and ends in conversations. Morphophonemics and phonemics refer more to the study of sound patterns in language, while pragmatics refers to the social context of language use.

Though He Spoke No English,Miguel Emigrated to the United States