Infants who are younger than 6 months of age
a. do not need to experience speech sounds in their environment to be able to discriminate them.
b. must experience speech sounds in their environment to be able to discriminate them.
c. can discriminate only the sounds found in their native language.
d. cannot discriminate any speech sounds which explains why they cannot talk.
a
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