Perceiving the order of successive speech sounds depends on their speed of delivery.

• Speech, itself, is nothing but sequences of different stimuli (phonemes), and perceiving their order is half of the decoding game. If the phonemes are far enough apart in time, you can perceive their order.

    
  
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                        (time)

  
  
  

  As they get closer together in time you may still perceive their order...
  
  ...but for someone with lesser perceptual processing power (continued on the next slide...)

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