Imagine That a Young Child Is Presented with a Novel

question 75

Multiple Choice

Imagine that a young child is presented with a novel word, "encyclopedia," when her grandmother says, "Oh, look at the encyclopedia." In front of the child are two objects, a bright pink-covered book-"book" is a word the child already knows-and a green onion, an object the child has never seen before. The child is MOST likely to make the assumption that the novel word refers to the

• A) book.
• B) pages of the book.
• C) onion.
• D) color of the onion.

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