John Colapinto on the Power and Beauty of the Human Voice
The Next Big Idea
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Is There a Space Between the Words?
When you analyze speech, there are no spaces that the words run together in an broken ribbon of sound. We're releasing a river of ound out of our mouths. But it's a real challenge for babies who are trying to figure out where words begin and end. How do they figure that out? Well, it's one of the extraordinary things, and they are listening extremely closely as its happening.
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