Card 9 / 54: Which is NOT true about human phonology?
A)
Humans use about 100 phonemes
B)
English has about 45 phonemes
C)
children are born with the capacity to discriminate all phonemes, but start to lose the ability to discriminate phonemes they do not hear after about 12 months
D)
pauses during natural speech generally occur at the ends of words
Answer:
D) pauses during natural speech generally occur at the ends of words
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Prof.John GabrieliNeuroscientist
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA
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