If you were to compare adult speech with the speech of infants under 6 months of age you should expect to find that
A) infants produce more morphemes than adults do.
B) adults are capable of producing more phonemes than infants are.
C) infants produce more phonemes than adults do.
D) adults and infants both use the same number of phonemes.

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Infants under 6 months can produce a wide range of phonemes, including those not present in their native language, but as they grow, they lose the ability to produce phonemes not used in their language environment. Adults typically produce only the phonemes present in their native language.

If You Were to Compare Adult Speech with the Speech