40) The findings of research on the early perception of language-relevant speech sounds are significant in that they demonstrate that

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Explanation:

The findings demonstrates two things:

1. That babies have the ability to differentiate between two different speech sounds chosen from different phonetic categories.

2. That babies could not reliably differentiate between two different speech sounds selected from within the same phonetic category.

The second point allowed the researchers, Eimas and co, to assert that their infants discerned the speech sounds difference in a closely categorical manner and, consequently, in a linguistic mode identical to or discovered in adults.

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