Saffran and Thiessen's 2003 Study on Pattern Induction by Infant

question 29

Multiple Choice

Saffran and Thiessen's 2003 study on pattern induction by infant language learners helped demonstrate that

• A) that babies quickly learn phonotactic constraints reflecting unnatural categories.
• B) testing requires use of real, not artificial, languages.
• C) babies do not start life with any bias for certain kinds of statistical regularities in the sounds of speech.
• D) evidence for learning biases in favor of natural patterns of language.

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