Which of the Following Is True of Infants' Ability to Differentiate

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true of infants' ability to differentiate sounds?

• A) Infants are born with the ability to ignore small, meaningless variations in the sounds of their native language.
• B) Infants can discriminate the sounds of their parent's voices by 3½ months of age.
• C) By the age of one week, infants perceive differences between speech sounds that are highly similar.
• D) By the age of one month, infants reliably discriminate three-syllable words.

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