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Infants up to 10â12 months can distinguish not only native sounds but also nonnative contrasts. Older children and adults lose the ability to discriminate some nonnative contrasts. Thus, it seems that exposure to oneâs native language causes the perceptual system to be restructured.
Stage One â Learning Sounds. When babies are born, they can make and hear all the sounds in all the languages in the world. Thatâs about 150 sounds in about 6500 languages! However, no language uses all 150 sounds. The sounds a language uses are called phonemes and English has about 44. Some languages use more and some use fewer. In this stage, babies learn which phonemes belong to the language they are learning and which donât.