Tanya (18 Months Old) Is Presented with Sentence, "The Dog

Multiple Choice

Tanya (18 months old) is presented with sentence, "The dog is blinking the cat." Tanya knows the words fly and cow, and through her understanding of the grammatical structure points to a picture of a dog that is licking a cat. This illustrates how _______ aids young children in the learning of new words.

A) telegraphic speech.
B) syntactic bootstrapping
C) referent mapping
D) underextension
E) fast mapping