When an Infant Uses the Word "Chair" Just to the Chair

question 17

Multiple Choice

When an infant uses the word "chair" just to the chair and not the chair and the floor underneath it, this is an example of the:

• A)use of distributional information.
• B)whole-object assumption.
• C)lexeme mapping.
• D)lexical constraint assumption.

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Definitions:

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