Saffran and Thiessen's 2003 study on pattern induction by infant language learners helped demonstrate that
A) that babies quickly learn phonotactic constraints reflecting unnatural categories.
B) testing requires use of real, not artificial, languages.
C) babies do not start life with any bias for certain kinds of statistical regularities in the sounds of speech.
D) evidence for learning biases in favor of natural patterns of language.

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Saffran and Thiessen's study demonstrated evidence for learning biases in favor of natural patterns of language. The infants were able to learn statistical regularities in speech sounds that reflect natural patterns of language, suggesting that they have an innate bias towards these patterns.

Saffran and Thiessen's 2003 Study on Pattern Induction by Infant