In What Way Does Exposure to a Language at a Young

question 9

Multiple Choice

In what way does exposure to a language at a young age affect our abilities to discriminate between different sounds?

• A)Infants have poor ability to distinguish between similar phonemes;however,with exposure in their first year of life,they learn how to make distinctions between sounds in their own languages.
• B)Infants have the ability to distinguish between similar phonemes;however,starting from the age of six years old,they begin to have difficulty distinguishing between similar phonemes that are not in their own language.
• C)People who grew up speaking different languages may differ in their perceptions of some consonants,but not in terms of their perceptions of some vowels.
• D)Infants as young as one year differ in their perception of some phonemes compared with those raised to speak a different language.
• E)Infants perceive sound categories categorically,but later lose those categories with repeated exposure to the first language.

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