A Mother Hands Little Marc His Familiar Bowl, Which Contains

Multiple Choice

A mother hands little Marc his familiar bowl, which contains a red fruit he has never seen before. She says, "Look, here are some strawberries!" When he sees this same fruit at dinnertime, he points and says a word something like "strawberries." Marc is demonstrating

A) overextension.
B) fast mapping.
C) an appreciation of syntax.
D) an appreciation of pragmatics.