Preschool Children Typically Respond to a Stimulus Word with a Related

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Preschool children typically respond to a stimulus word with a related word interaction such as agent-action or action-object (cow-moo or drink-milk) .By 7 years of age, children start responding with the same part of speech as the stimulus word (hot dog-hamburger) .This is evidence that children at this age have begun to _____ their vocabulary.

A) memorize
B) compromise
C) specialize
D) categorize