Research on infants' speech sound processing indicates that:
A) it necessary for infants to discriminate between speech sounds important to the language and those that are not important to the language
B) infants perceive sound and discriminate between utterances in terms of syllables.
C) infants can perceive patterns of language according to phonemes alone.
D) All of these answers are correct.

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Infants are born ready to process speech sounds, but they need to learn to differentiate between the sounds that are important for the language they are learning and those that are not. Infants can discriminate between speech sounds at different levels, including syllables and phonemes. Research has shown that infants can perceive patterns of language based solely on the phonemes used in the language. Therefore, all of these answers are correct.

Research on Infants' Speech Sound Processing Indicates That