Multiple Choice
What might be the process by which a child, who does not yet know the meaning of the word "spatula," successfully infers the meaning of the sentence "give me the spatula"?
A) Syntactic bootstrapping
B) Semantic bootstrapping
C) Fast-mapping
D) None of the alternatives are correct.
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