According to the Research on Infant Speech Perception

question 14

Multiple Choice

According to the research on infant speech perception,

• A) infants cannot distinguish between their native language and an unfamiliar language until they are about 1 year of age.
• B) infants' ability to appreciate phoneme contrasts in an unfamiliar language improves substantially during the first 2 years of life.
• C) infants are slow to develop language because they cannot recognize the basic phonemes of their native language until they are about 9 months of age.
• D) by the age of about 5 months, infants respond more to their own name than to a different name.

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