It seems like it'd be useful for one or both of you to cite any research than has been done on this.
Seems more productive (and enlightening to all) than the agree/disagree dialogue here.
Seems more productive (and enlightening to all) than the agree/disagree dialogue here.
The best way to see this is to try listening to a language you do not understand, and try to identify word boundries.
Indeed, the paper I link argues that some phonetic cue must exist because babies can recognise word boundries.
[1] https://www.sissa.it/cns/Articles/94_doInfPerceiveWordB.pdf
A monotonal, monotempo sound would not be able to make that difference audible