Baby Rosalita, born to English-speaking parents, is able to differentiate between the soft "p" and sharp "p" phonemes used to distinguish meaning in the Thai language. Her parents perceive both sounds as identical
Rosalita's parents are exhibiting
A) categorical speech perception.
B) semantic bootstrapping.
C) referential communication.
D) overregularization.
A
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