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Suppose a Baby Grows Up in a Home with Its

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Suppose a baby grows up in a home with its parents and grandparents. The parents speak one language and the grandparents speak another, so the baby hears both languages in the home. What will most likely happen to the baby's ability to perceive and produce phonemes from the two languages at about one year old?


A) The baby will be able to perceive and produce phonemes from the parents' language but not the grandparents' language.
B) The baby will be able to perceive and produce phonemes from the grandparents' language but not the parents' language.
C) The baby will be able to perceive and produce phonemes from both languages.
D) The baby will not be able to perceive and produce phonemes from either language.
E) The baby will be able to perceive and produce phonemes from every language in the world, including languages not heard in the home.

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