The Phenomenon That in Any Language, Certain Sounds Are More

question 90

Multiple Choice

The phenomenon that in any language, certain sounds are more likely to occur together than are others is referred to as

• A) prosody.
• B) pragmatics.
• C) word segmentation.
• D) distributional properties.

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