Research on the Perception of Phonemes by Infants Reveals That

Multiple Choice

Research on the perception of phonemes by infants reveals that

A) very young infants cannot distinguish between two phonemes from an unfamiliar language whereas older infants can.
B) from birth, infants slowly accumulate a growing number of phonemes that they can recognize, until they have learned all the phonemes in their language.
C) the lack of exposure to a language can lead people to be unable to distinguish between two phonemes from that language as they get older.
D) 1-year-old infants can distinguish between two phonemes from an unfamiliar language whereas 6-year-olds cannot.
E) infants from one language group cannot understand the phonemes used by an unfamiliar language group.