A teacher designs activities to help a student detect differences in non-phonemic aspects of spoken language such as pitch, stress, and prosody. This approach best develops which auditory processing skill?

• A. comprehending a speaker's use of unfamiliar speech patterns
• B. discriminating between suprasegmentals in speech
• C. localizing various sounds in the environment
• D. detecting sound in the midst of competing background noise

Answer: (B)