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Nina's Mom Has Been Warning Her About the Danger of Playing

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Nina's mom has been warning her about the danger of playing with her balloon near a burning candle. Suddenly, the balloon hits the flame and explodes. Nina's mom looks at her and says, "I hope that you are happy," but because of the tone of her voice, her mom is really saying, "See, I told you to watch out!" This use of tone to change the meaning of a sentence provides a good example of the concept of


A) word segmentation.
B) syntactic bootstrapping.
C) overregulation.
D) prosody.

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