Over the first year of life, bilingual children :
A. maintain their ability to hear phonemic contrasts in the language that their mother speaks, but it takes additional them to become skilled at hearing the contrasts of another language.
B. do not tune their phonemic abilities to a particular language but remain open to all phonemic contrasts.
C. maintain their ability to hear phonemic contrasts in both of their languages while losing their ability hear phonemic contrasts beyond those languages.
D. tune their phonemic systems in exactly the same way that monolingual children do.
C
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