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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The phenomenon described in the question is referred to as "distributional properties," which refers to the tendency for certain sounds to co-occur more frequently than others within a language. Prosody refers to the patterns of stress and intonation in language, pragmatics refers to the social and contextual use of language, and word segmentation refers to the process of identifying individual words within a stream of speech.

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