Which of the following statements about speech stream patterns is true?
A) Babies learn to talk long before they learn the structure of speech.
B) Children cannot detect words that start with weak syllables until around 3 years of age.
C) By analyzing the speech stream, infants acquire a stock of speech structures long before they start to talk.
D) Babies and toddlers cannot discriminate a word-internal syllable pair from a word-external syllable pair.

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Research suggests that by analyzing the speech stream, infants acquire a stock of speech structures long before they start to talk. This helps them to learn the structure of language and eventually acquire it themselves. Option A is incorrect because learning the structure of speech is an important part of learning to talk. Option B is incorrect because children can detect weak syllables from a younger age than 3 years old. Option D is also incorrect because infants can discriminate between word-internal and word-external syllable pairs.

Which of the Following Statements About Speech Stream Patterns Is