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When do infants lose the ability to discriminate between two non-native consonants?

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Infants with 9 till 11 months or 12-14 months lose the ability to discriminate between two non-native consonants.
Children have to learn to distinguish different sounds and to segment the speech stream, which includes to to discriminate between two non-native consonants in order to acquire words and sentences.
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