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Davideckstein7 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

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.

Question 2

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.