A Mother and Her Four-Year-Old Daughter Hear the Grandmother Refer

Multiple Choice

A mother and her four-year-old daughter hear the grandmother refer to the weather outside as "it's raining cats and dogs." The mother tends to get one meaning from this phrase, while her daughter is hoping for a lot of new pets.This situation illustrates a _____ problem in understanding the phrase, "it's raining cats and dogs."

A) syntactical
B) phonemic
C) semantic
D) grammatical