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Thomas G. Bever

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The Unity of Consciousness and the Consciousness of Unity

Oxford Scholarship Online October 19, 2017 Thomas G. Bever

Every language-learning child eventually automatically segments the organization of word sequences into natural units. Within the natural units, processing of normal conversation reveals a disconnect between listener’s representation of the sound and meaning of utterances. A compressed or absent word at a point early in a sequence is unintelligible until later acoustic information, yet...