Infants' sensitivity to the distributional properties of the speech they hear helps them
A) pick words out of speech streams.
B) differentiate between speech sounds and nonspeech sounds.
C) pay more attention to their mothers' speech than to other people's speech.
D) attend to paternal speech patterns.

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Infants use distributional properties of speech to identify and segment words from continuous speech streams. By detecting word boundaries, they are able to make sense of the language they hear.

Infants' Sensitivity to the Distributional Properties of the Speech They