In a study by Saffran and colleagues (1996), infants were familiarized with a continuous speech stream consisting of made-up words such as bidaku, padoti, and golabu (e.g., bidakugolabugolabupadotibidaku…)
After familiarization, Saffran and colleagues used the head-turn preference procedure to show that infants were able to tell the difference between words like "bidaku" and part-words like "kupado." Infants were able to do this because they tracked the ___ of the syllables in the language.
a. frequencies
b. transitional probabilities
c. stress patterns
d. phonotactics
B
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