Which of the following statements about how infants perceive the structure of speech is true?
A) Rules that infants extract from the speech stream do not generalize to nonspeech sounds.
B) Parents must directly teach word-order rules for infants to understand the basic grammar of their language.
C) Infants locate words by discriminating syllables that often occur together from syllables that seldom occur together.
D) Infants do not become sensitive to the speech structure of individual words until after their first birthday.

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Research shows that infants use statistical learning to locate words in speech by discriminating syllables that often occur together from syllables that seldom occur together. Rules extracted from speech generalize to nonspeech sounds as well. Parents do not need to directly teach word-order rules as infants can extract them from the speech stream. Infants become sensitive to the speech structure of individual words before their first birthday.

Which of the Following Statements About How Infants Perceive the Structure