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newyorker26

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During the first year of life, infants
 
  a) cannot discriminate fine distinctions among the sounds of the language spoken around them
  b) lose the ability to discriminate fine distinctions among sounds of languages not spoken around them
  c) are able to produce all the sounds of every known human language
  d) can learn the sounds of a language not spoken around them if they are exposed to that language via television or radio broadcasts

Question 2

Children whose native language contains difficult sounds and complex phonological rules, such as Chinese, learn to speak somewhat later than children whose native languages are relatively less complex.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

FALSE



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