In Saffran and colleagues' 1996 study, 8-month-olds who were habituated to streams of multi-syllabic artificial words and later tested for recognition of those "words"
A) could distinguish between strings of syllables that made up a word and strings of syllables that did not.
B) could not distinguish between words and non-words.
C) used parental cues to distinguish words from non-words.
D) could distinguish between words and non-words if a researcher pointed, orienting the child.

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The study found that 8-month-olds who were habituated to streams of multi-syllabic artificial words were able to distinguish between strings of syllables that made up a word and strings of syllables that did not. This suggests that infants as young as 8 months old have the ability to recognize and differentiate between linguistic units like individual words.

In Saffran and Colleagues' 1996 Study, 8-Month-Olds Who Were Habituated