Saffran,Aslin,and Newport (1996) presented infants with a continuous speech stream made up of four different three-syllable nonsense words,for a total of two minutes.Then,they tested whether infants had picked up on "word boundaries" by presenting these nonsense words and new sequences.The infants showed a preference for ______,demonstrating that they
A) neither sequence;had picked up on the word boundaries of the original nonsense words.
B) neither sequence;had failed to pick up on the word boundaries of the original nonsense words.
C) listening to the new sequences;had picked up on the word boundaries of the original nonsense words.
D) listening to the new sequences;had failed to pick up on the word boundaries of the original nonsense words.
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