Toward the end of the first year of exposure to speech,our auditory functioning undergoes a reorganization that reduces sensitivity to sounds not part of our native language.This is an example of

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Perceptual narrowing is the process by which our perception becomes specialized for the sounds of our native language and less sensitive to sounds that are not part of that language. This reorganization of auditory functioning occurs toward the end of the first year of exposure to speech. Therefore, option B is the correct choice. The other options, auditory awareness, phonemic balancing, and sound destimulization, are not relevant to this phenomenon.

Toward the End of the First Year of Exposure to Speech,our