Imagine That a Young Child Is Presented with a Novel

question 114

Multiple Choice

Imagine that a young child is presented with a novel word, "teddy," when her uncle says, "What a sweet teddy." In front of the child are two objects, a teddy bear-"bear" is a word the child already knows-and a can opener, an object the child has never seen before. The child makes the assumption that the novel word refers to the can opener through an expectation referred to as

• A) the mutual exclusivity assumption.
• B) fast mapping.
• C) the whole-object assumption.
• D) cross-situational word learning.

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