The normal rhythm and stress found in speech is called __________.
A. prosody
B. semantics
C. syntax
D. grammatical flow
Answer: A
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a. ?hypothesis; placebo b. ?theory; random variable c. ?bias; treatment d. ?intervening variable; placebo
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a. representativeness heuristic c. anchoring and adjustment heuristic b. persistence heuristic d. availability heuristic
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