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Chapter 10  How We Listen to Speech

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        In this chapter, writer will tell us that we usually listen for units larger than single sounds.  Writer does not think that when interpreting what we hear we first find the individual sounds and then combine them to from words.  In writerˇ¦s opinion, he thinks listening to speech involves matching incoming sounds to the stored patterns of words and syllables in our minds.  And writer uses two examples-pie and tie, pie and sigh-to support his opinion.  Writer uses some tests to support that patterns of some syllables can be easily confused with those of others.  And when we listen for a lot of words like a speech, we can use whatever we can to understand the meaning of speech.  We can look at the speaker and get some messages form speakerˇ¦s face.  Sometimes we only pick up the meaning of some particular sounds from what we are listening to. 

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