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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.
Phonological development. Sound is at the beginning of language learning. Children have to learn to distinguish different sounds and to segment the speech stream they are exposed to into units â eventually meaningful units â in order to acquire words and sentences. Here is one reason that speech segmentation is challenging: When you read, there are spaces between the words.