Which of the Following Statements About How Infants Perceive the Structure

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about how infants perceive the structure of speech is true?

A) Rules that infants extract from the speech stream do not generalize to nonspeech sounds.
B) Parents must directly teach word-order rules for infants to understand the basic grammar of their language.
C) Infants locate words by discriminating syllables that often occur together from syllables that seldom occur together.
D) Infants do not become sensitive to the speech structure of individual words until after their first birthday.