Which of the following statements about speech stream patterns is true?

A) Babies learn to talk long before they learn the structure of speech.
B) Children cannot detect words that start with weak syllables until around 3 years of age.
C) By analyzing the speech stream, infants acquire a stock of speech structures long before they start to talk.
D) Babies and toddlers cannot discriminate a word-internal syllable pair from a word-external syllable pair.

C