Which statement accurately describes phonemes? a. Phonemes are the basic units that give meaning to words. b. Infants can only d
istinguish phonemes that sound similar to cooing. c. Newborns apparently are biologically capable of hearing the entire range of phonemes in all languages worldwide. d. All phonemes are equally important in all languages.
Answer:c. Newborns apparently are biologically capable of hearing the entire range of phonemes in all languages worldwide.
Explanation:
A phoneme is a sound that differentiates a word from another one in a different langauge.
For example in a common English language the words may sound similar but be differentiated from each other by just one phoneme such as words sing and sin and words like soup and soap.
Kids are able to recognise these sounds at their early age based on their home langauge because they learn though picking up sounds , certain sounds.
