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RYAN BANYAN

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What can we conclude regarding developmental changes in speech perception?
 
  a. With age, we become more sensitive to sound discriminations that are relevant in our own language and less sensitive to sound discriminations that are irrelevant.
  b. With age, we become more sensitive to all sound discriminations.
  c. There are no detectable differences in sound discriminations with age.
  d. With age, we become more sensitive to differences in consonant sounds and less sensitive to differences in vowel sounds.

Question 2

Thirty-year-old Jiang has lived in China all his life and has only spoken in a common Chinese dialect. Jiang has an infant son named Woo. What linguistic advantage would Woo have over Jiang?
 
  a. Woo would have a larger vocabulary.
  b. Woo would be better able to distinguish between the r and l sounds.
  c. Woo would be producing more grammatically correct sentences than Jiang.
  d. Woo would have no linguistic advantages over his father.


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

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Answer to Question 2

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