The lack of correspondence between a phoneme and the physical speed sound is known as the:
A) Shannon-Fano principle
B) Zipf' Law
C) irrelevant sound effect
D) segmentation problem

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The segmentation problem refers to the difficulty in determining where one phoneme ends and another begins in the continuous flow of speech sounds, highlighting the lack of a straightforward correspondence between individual phonemes and their physical sound representations.

The Lack of Correspondence Between a Phoneme and the Physical