During the earliest stage of speech development,infants
A) speak in single words that may be barely recognizable.
B) imitate adult syntax.
C) make some speech sounds that do not occur in their parents' native language.
D) alternate equally between verbal and manual babbling.

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During the earliest stages of speech development, infants experiment with various sound productions, including some that are not part of the phonetic inventory of their parents' native language. This exploration is part of how they learn to produce the specific sounds of their native language(s) over time.

During the Earliest Stage of Speech Development,infants