Question

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 was not capable of ____ in English

Answer 1

Answer: Speech segmentation

Explanation:

Speech segmentation is separation or segmentation of spoken language through finding boundaries between them as per phonemes, words or syllable.It is used in natural language for processing it while speaking and hearing .

According to the question, Carlos is unable to perform speech segmentation of English language while speaking and hearing. He was incapable to break the phrase and process it before learning English language.