What is the relationship between language and auditory perception in infants?
A. Neonates prefer the sounds of their parents' native language over other languages.
B. At first, young infants can perceive most speech sounds regardless of the language, but eventually can only discriminate the sounds of their native language.
C. Infants fixate on meaningless deviations in speech in their native language (i.e., changes in speech because of congestion) but are unable to do so in other languages.
D. Infants as young as one month of age can discriminate between one syllable sounds, but are unable to do so with more complex three syllable sounds.
Answer: B
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