A prelinguistic infant exhibits reduced variegated babbling — which consequence follows regarding their phonetic inventory development?

💡 Explanation

Reduced variegated babbling means the infant produces fewer different consonant-vowel combinations; this delays the typical emergence of consonant-vowel syllable structures because motor practice is reduced. Therefore, consonant-vowel emergence is delayed, rather than accelerated or affecting suprasegmental modulation which is related to prosody.

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