Given that Betty is fluent in Spanish, she can tell when one word ends and the next one begins. This illustrates ___.a. unconscious inferenceb. the direct pathway modelc. the likelihood principled. speech segmentation

Speech segmentation

Explanation:

Speech segmentation is the process  by which an individual identifies the boundaries between syllables, phonemes or words in spoken natural languages. The mental processes of the individual and the artificial processing of processing natural language is comprised in speech segmentation.

It is an important step in automatic speech recognition. A second-language learner can find it difficult to learn speech segmentation