Infants' Sensitivity to the Distributional Properties of the Speech They

question 101

Multiple Choice

Infants' sensitivity to the distributional properties of the speech they hear helps them

• A) pick words out of speech streams.
• B) differentiate between speech sounds and nonspeech sounds.
• C) pay more attention to their mothers' speech than to other people's speech.
• D) attend to paternal speech patterns.

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