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us where it ends. But you can’t get that information from the wave form itself. In fact, there’s a whole genre of wordplay that takes advantage of the fact that word
boundaries are not physically present in the speech wave. Novelty songs like Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wooden shoe? Now,
it turns out that this is actually a grammatical sequence in words in English… Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy, a kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn’t you?
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