When you listen to someone speaking a foreign language, the words seem to speed by in an unbroken string of sound.To a speaker of that language, the words seem separated.The Gestalt law that is operating here is the law of
A) similarity.
B) familiarity.
C) nearness.
D) good continuation.

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The law of familiarity suggests that people perceive elements as a group or a whole if they are familiar or meaningful to them. In this case, speakers of the language can easily segment the speech into familiar words.

When You Listen to Someone Speaking a Foreign Language, the Words