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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Miguel is struggling with speech segmentation, which is the process of identifying the boundaries between words, syllables, or phonemes in spoken natural languages. This is a common challenge for language learners when transitioning from reading and writing to listening and speaking.

Miguel Is Taking an Introductory French Course and Has to Complete