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Davideckstein7

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Infants are called universal listeners because:
 
  A. they spend so much time listening to everything going on around them.
  B. they categorically perceive phonemes.
  C. they can discriminate among a large  perhaps universal  set of phones.
  D. they possess a universal grammar (UG) which allows them to process what they listen to into a grammar.

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Categorical Perception of phonemes refers to the fact that:
 
  A. Linguists can categorize all of the perceived sounds into phonemes.
  B. we hear sounds as belonging to a single phoneme category, even though the acoustic differences between sounds are along a continuous dimension.
  C. the phoneme /b/ has a shorter voice onset time (VOT) than the phoneme /p/ has.
  D. infants tune their perceptual system to categorize phonemes over the first year of life.


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Kdiggy

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

B


Davideckstein7

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
:D TYSM

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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