One of the challenges our perceptual system overcomes to enable us to correctly comprehend speech is something called the segmentation problem. When we listen to someone speaking, the acoustic signal that comes into our ears is steady and unbroken. Our cognitive system then parses out this continuous stream into identifiable individual words and phrases. But sometimes this segmentation is not perfect and sounds are incorrectly parsed apart or together. See below, for a humorous example of this: A little boy tells his mother that he knows what God's name is. "What is it?" asks the mother. "Andy," replies the boy. "Why is that?" asks the mother. "Because," said the boy, I heard you singing "Andy walks with me, Andy talks with me, Andy tells me I am His own." Here are the correct lyrics to the song: "And He walks with me, And He talks with me, And He tells me I am His own." Unfamiliar song lyrics are prime examples of contexts where this happens. Do you have an example of a speech segmentation error to share with the class? It can be yours or someone else's