Which of the Following Statements About How Infants Perceive the Structure

question 113

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about how infants perceive the structure of speech is true?

• A) Rules that infants extract from the speech stream do not generalize to nonspeech sounds.
• B) Parents must directly teach word-order rules for infants to understand the basic grammar of their language.
• C) Infants locate words by discriminating syllables that often occur together from syllables that seldom occur together.
• D) Infants do not become sensitive to the speech structure of individual words until after their first birthday.

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