The Research on Infants' Speech Perception Suggests That

question 11

Multiple Choice

The research on infants' speech perception suggests that

• A) infants can appreciate phoneme similarities shortly after birth, but they cannot appreciate phoneme differences until they are almost 12 months old.
• B) infants have such limited skills that psychologists cannot design appropriate research on speech perception in infants younger than 6 months of age.
• C) infants can perceive the differences between a variety of similar phonemes; this ability is present either at birth or during the first weeks of life.
• D) the perception of phonemes does not change after the age of 6 months.

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