all very interesting of course

Where were we? Wherever, anyway, it's all very interseting of course. The human brain, in association with it's ear, can process 900 phonemes a minute. That's a lot of phonemes by any standard. And of course the mind does not merely render a phonetic rendering (I like that word, rendering, and so use it a lot) but also analyzes and comprehends the manner by which essentially meaningless phonemes (letters to the rest of us) are built up into morphemes (syllables..) morphemes into words, words into phrases and phrases into sentences. Not to mention of course all those pesky meanings, connotations and associations connected with words and particular combinations of words etc.