Listening to someone speak a foreign language you are not familiar with can lead to _____.
A) the correspondence problem
B) the segmentation problem
C) the formant transition effect?
D) acoustic signaling

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The segmentation problem refers to the difficulty in discerning when one word ends and another begins in a stream of continuous speech. This can be particularly challenging when listening to a foreign language that one is not familiar with. The other options do not refer specifically to this challenge.

Listening to Someone Speak a Foreign Language You Are Not