Which of the following statements is supported by research on categorical speech perception?
A) A preference for the overall sound pattern of one's native language to that of a different language emerges during the second half of the first year.
B) Young infants are sensitive to a much wider range of speech categories than exists in their own language.
C) At birth, infants organize speech into the phonemic categories of their own language.
D) The emergence of categorical speech perception in the first few days after birth is largely due to adult interaction.
B
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