Toward the End of the First Year of Exposure to Speech,our

question 107

Multiple Choice

Toward the end of the first year of exposure to speech,our auditory functioning undergoes a reorganization that reduces sensitivity to sounds not part of our native language.This is an example of

• A) auditory awareness.
• B) perceptual narrowing.
• C) phonemic balancing.
• D) sound destimulization.

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