Categorical Perception of phonemes refers to the fact that:
A. Linguists can categorize all of the perceived sounds into phonemes.
B. we hear sounds as belonging to a single phoneme category, even though the acoustic differences between sounds are along a continuous dimension.
C. the phoneme /b/ has a shorter voice onset time (VOT) than the phoneme /p/ has.
D. infants tune their perceptual system to categorize phonemes over the first year of life.
B
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