When Four-Year-Old Methuselah Sees an Elderly Gentleman Enter a Store

Multiple Choice

When four-year-old Methuselah sees an elderly gentleman enter a store, he screams, "Mommy, look at that old man who looks like he should be dead!" The fact that Methuselah does not yet realize that such statements are socially inappropriate indicates that he lacks a complete understanding of the _____ of language.

A) semantics
B) syntax
C) prosody
D) pragmatics