Question

Which of the following statements is true in the context of babbling babies?

a)they can hear fewersounds than their parents do.
b)they can make fewer sounds than they hear in their native language.
c)they tend to retain the sounds that are not used in the native language.
d)they can hear more sounds than their parents do.

Answer 1

Babbling babies can make fewer sounds than they hear in their native language.

Step-by-step explanation:

Babbling babies

start producing single syllables that are repeated over and over. They can discriminate among the sounds of all human languages early on, but by around 1 year old, they can only discriminate the sounds used in their environment. Therefore, the

true

statement in the context of babbling babies is that they can make

fewer sounds than they hear in their native language