At What Age Do Infants Begin to Pick Out Words

question 7

Multiple Choice

At what age do infants begin to pick out words from a speech stream based solely on how often certain syllables tend to occur together in the same order?

• A) This ability is present at birth.
• B) This ability is present at 4 months of age.
• C) This ability is present at 8 months of age.
• D) This ability is present by 2 years of age.

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Definitions:

Critical F Value

A value derived from an F-distribution, used to determine the statistical significance in hypothesis testing involving variance.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can be arbitrarily assigned in a statistical calculation, often reflecting the number of values that are free to vary.

Independent Variable

In statistical analysis, a variable presumed to cause or influence the dependent variable without itself being affected by any other variables of interest.

ANOVA

Analysis of Variance, a statistical method used to compare the means of three or more samples to determine if at least one of the sample means significantly differs from the others.