Explain how speech perception skills change over the first 12 months
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Infants under 6 months of age are “citizens of the world,” meaning that they can perceive distinctions among phonemes from both the language(s) spoken around them as well as unfamiliar languages, indicating that the ability to process phoneme distinctions is universal.
Between 6 and 12 months infants become better able to distinguish phonemes from the language(s) spoken around them and lose the ability to distinguish phonemes from a foreign language.
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