In a study of speech perception described in the textbook, Janet Werker showed that infants under 8 months of age performed better than English-speaking adults on a task that involved
a. distinguishing between Hindi phonemes.
b. localizing the source of a sound.
c. associating speakers with samples of speech.
d. producing phonemes that occur in Japanese but not in English.
Answer: a. distinguishing between Hindi phonemes.
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