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casperchen82 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Which statement about the perceptual narrowing effect is true?

A) Babies are not sensitive to speech sounds, but they become so over time.
B) Human babies cannot discriminate individual faces of humans or monkeys.
C) Six-month-olds can detect rhythmic changes in both Western and non-Western melodies.
D) After exposure to Western music, 12-month-olds become aware of changes in non-Western rhythms.

Question 2

Around 7 to 9 months, infants __________.

A) can detect words that start with weak syllables
B) begin to prefer nonspeech sounds over human speech
C) begin to prefer their native language to foreign languages
D) begin to divide the speech stream into wordlike units