Multiple Choice
Saffran and Thiessen's 2003 study on pattern induction by infant language learners helped demonstrate that
A) that babies quickly learn phonotactic constraints reflecting unnatural categories.
B) testing requires use of real, not artificial, languages.
C) babies do not start life with any bias for certain kinds of statistical regularities in the sounds of speech.
D) evidence for learning biases in favor of natural patterns of language.
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