According to the Rules That Young Children Use to Learn

question 16

Multiple Choice

According to the rules that young children use to learn the meanings of new words, when Ravisha points to a picture of a boy in a blue shirt and says "boy" her 13-month-old son will assume that the word "boy" refers to

• A) the boy.
• B) the boy's shirt.
• C) the color blue.
• D) the book that Ravisha is reading.

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