Why do we experience perceptual narrowing?
A. It enables us to correctly perceive the boundaries between spoken words.
B. It helps us to acquire our first language.
C. It helps us infer the movements of speakers' mouths.
D. It enables us to detect how one phoneme affects the acoustic properties of subsequent phonemes.
Answer: B
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