Which of the Following Statements About Speech Stream Patterns Is

question 46

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about speech stream patterns is true?

• A) Babies learn to talk long before they learn the structure of speech.
• B) Children cannot detect words that start with weak syllables until around 3 years of age.
• C) By analyzing the speech stream, infants acquire a stock of speech structures long before they start to talk.
• D) Babies and toddlers cannot discriminate a word-internal syllable pair from a word-external syllable pair.

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