Multiple Choice
The Werker and Tees (1984) study suggested that our ability to perceive phonemic distinctions:
A) is set at infancy and does not decline with age.
B) is only complete if, as infants, we are exposed to speech sounds that do not occur within our native language
C) is fully-developed at infancy and declines rapidly over the first year of life
D) depends entirely on the number and type of phonemes within our native language
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