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Studies of infants' statistical learning abilities have shown that:
 
  A. infants calculate simple t-tests to determine where word boundaries are.
  B. infants can keep track of statistical properties of their input, but they require hours (if not days) of exposure to make useful inferences.
  C. infants can use the statistical properties of their input to help them find words and also higher level elements such as grammatical categories.
  D. infants cannot calculate statistics.

Question 2

Infants who tune their perceptual system to their native language phonemes more quickly:
 
  A. are not able to make categorical distinctions among phonemes.
  B. are also more likely to retain the ability to perceive non-native phoneme contrasts.
  C. show later difficulties with non-auditory aspects of language development.
  D. show more rapid language development in the word learning stage.



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

D



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