When Carlos moved to the U.S., he did not understand any English.Phrases like "Anna Mary Can Pi And I Scream Class Hick" 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 is not capable of ____ in English.
A) speech segmentation
B) the likelihood principle
C) bottom-up processing
D) algorithms

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Speech segmentation is the ability to break down a continuous stream of speech into individual words, which Carlos was not able to do when he first encountered the phrase in English. The other options (B, C, and D) are not directly related to this cognitive process.

When Carlos Moved to the U