Studies of Infants' Auditory Pattern Perceptions by Werker and Colleagues

question 266

Multiple Choice

Studies of infants' auditory pattern perceptions by Werker and colleagues at the University of British Columbia found that:

• A) infants gradually learn to discriminate more phonemes over the course of their first year.
• B) as infants began to speak words in their native language they lost their ability to discriminate between phonemes that were not in their native language.
• C) six months old infants could not detect changes in language phonemes that their mothers could not detect.
• D) there was a steady decline from birth in infants' abilities to detect phonemic differences regardless of the languages in which the phonemes occur.

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Definitions:

LIFO Periodic Inventory Method

An inventory valuation method where the last items purchased are the first items considered sold during a given period, calculated periodically.

Ending Inventory

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Perpetual Inventory System

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FIFO

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