At the same time that infants are losing their abilities to discriminate among foreign phonemes, they are able to

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As infants become more specialized in processing their native language, they are able to distinguish finer and finer differences among the phonemes of their mother tongue, allowing them to continue to develop their language skills. This specialization is thought to occur through experience-dependent changes in the brain's neural organization. Therefore, the best choice is D, which describes infants' ability to make increasingly fine discriminations among the phonemes in their mother tongue.

At the Same Time That Infants Are Losing Their Abilities