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Speakers have the clear intuition that when speaking they say words and when spoken to they hear words. It comes as a considerable surprise to naive speakers to discover that the utterances that they produce and hear are in fact not divided by short pauses into words. And this impression of hearing and speaking words is not lost even by experienced speech researchers who are well aware of the fact that utterances are not acoustically segmented into words.
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Halle, M., Stevens, K.N. (1991). Knowledge of language and the sounds of speech. In: Sundberg, J., Nord, L., Carlson, R. (eds) Music, Language, Speech and Brain. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12670-5_1
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