Seven-Year-Old Travis Heard a Joke in School and Asks You,"How

Multiple Choice

Seven-year-old Travis heard a joke in school and asks you,"How could you find a lost dog in the woods " When you are stumped,he tells you,"You stand near a tree and listen for the bark." What is Travis developing,based on this play on words

A)  the ability to use linguistic heuristics 
B)  psycholinguistic skills 
C)  metalinguistic awareness 
D)  linguistic relativity