At the Same Time That Infants Are Losing Their Abilities

question 86

Multiple Choice

At the same time that infants are losing their abilities to discriminate among foreign phonemes, they are able to

• A)make great progress in pronouncing phonemes in their native language.
• B)distinguish phonemes that are spoken with an increasing lower pitch.
• C)maintain a full range of speech flexibility to allow them to learn other languages later.
• D)make increasingly fine discriminations among the phonemes in their mother tongue.

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