Multiple Choice
Three-year-old Petrov knows the word doggie.When he and his mother take their dog to the veterinarian, she tells Petrov that his "poodle is very sick." If Petrov understands that this new word poodle refers to a kind of dog, what is he using to infer the meaning of the new word?
A) the lexical contrast constraint
B) the category constraint
C) the object scope constraint
D) the taxonomic constraint
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