A Child Looks Out the Window of the Car in the Countryside

question 23

Multiple Choice

A child looks out the window of the car in the countryside and calls all four-legged animals "cow." This is an example of:

• A) under extension
• B) overextension
• C) word spurt
• D) word mapping

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Definitions:

Vocabulary

The collection of words that a person knows and utilizes in a specific language.

Pragmatics

The study of how context influences the interpretation of meaning in language, including assumptions, implications, and social rules of communication.

Grammar

The set of structural rules governing the composition of sentences, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

Child Development

The biological, psychological, and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence, as the individual progresses from dependency to increasing autonomy.