Exposure to a language at a young age affects the ability to discriminate between different sounds because: a Infants have a poor ability to distinguish between similar phonemes, but with exposure in their first year, they learn how to make distinctions between sounds in their own language.

b. Infants can distinguish between similar phonemes, but starting at age 6, they begin to have difficulty distinguishing between similar phonemes that are not in their own language.

c. People who grew up speaking different languages may differ in their perceptions of some consonants, but not in their perceptions of some vowels. d Infants as young as 12 months differ in their perception of some phonemes compared with those raised to speak a different language.

e. None of the above.