Infants Around Age 6 Months Babble

question 116

Multiple Choice

Infants around age 6 months babble. To what extent is their babbling influenced by what they hear?

• A) The more the infant hears, the less it babbles.
• B) From birth onward, the amount of babbling is directly proportional to how much the parents talk to the infant.
• C) At first infants copy the sounds they hear; later they begin to invent new sounds of their own.
• D) At first, what infants hear makes no difference; later they begin to copy the sounds they hear.

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