Toddler Arielle Sees a Baby Being Tickled by a Boy

question 96

Multiple Choice

Toddler Arielle sees a baby being tickled by a boy and hears her mother say, "The boy is tickling the baby." Arielle has never heard anyone use the word "tickling." Arielle figures out that "tickling" is what the boy is doing to the baby, not what the baby is doing (laughing and waving her arms in delight) , through

• A) syntactic bootstrapping.
• B) intersubjectivity.
• C) fast mapping.
• D) attending to the linguistic category of the novel word.

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Definitions:

Volume

The amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container.

°C

a unit of temperature on the Celsius scale, a measure relative to 0°C for the freezing point and 100°C for the boiling point of water at sea level.

Atm

An abbreviation for atmosphere, a unit of pressure equal to the pressure exerted by the Earth's atmosphere at sea level.

Volume

The amount of space an object or substance occupies, measured in liters, cubic meters, or other units of capacity.