During a listening activity, students hear the sentence "You could have told me earlier" in spontaneous speech and report that could have sounds different from its isolated pronunciation.
Regarding listening comprehension in connected speech, mark T, for true, and F, for false.
(__) Reduced forms may make grammatical words less perceptually salient in spontaneous speech.
(__) Recognizing every phoneme separately is required before a listener can identify the meaning of the utterance.
(__) Context and stress patterns can help listeners recover forms that are acoustically reduced.
(__) Exposure to connected speech may help students develop expectations about common reductions.
Select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence.