Kuhl's research involving exposing infants from English-speaking homes to stories read in Mandarin found that _____.
A) having the reader present with the infant was effective in teaching the infants to discriminate among Mandarin sounds, but a DVD of the same reader reading the same stories was not
B) having the reader present with the infant was not effective in teaching the infants to discriminate among Mandarin sounds, but a DVD of the same reader reading the same stories was very effective
C) having the reader present with the infant was effective in teaching the infants to discriminate among Mandarin sounds, as was a DVD of the same reader reading the same stories
D) having the reader present with the infant was effective in teaching the infants to discriminate among Mandarin sounds, as was a DVD of the same reader reading the same stories, but only when the infants were at least 18 months old

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Kuhl's research demonstrated that infants could learn to discriminate Mandarin phonetic contrasts when a live person read stories to them, but not when they watched the same stories on a DVD. This highlights the importance of social interaction in early language learning.

Kuhl's Research Involving Exposing Infants from English-Speaking Homes to Stories