Infants are called "universal listeners" because:

A. they spend so much time listening to everything going on around them.
B. they categorically perceive phonemes.
C. they can discriminate among a large – perhaps universal – set of phones.
D. they possess a universal grammar (UG) which allows them to process what they listen to into a grammar.

C

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