When 4-year-olds describe a toy to a 2-year-old, they
a. use fewer attention-getting phrases than they do with an adult listener.
b. use longer sentences than they do with an adult listener.
c. use simpler grammar than they do with an adult listener.
d. do not adjust their speech when talking to a younger child.
c
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a. incipient cooperation c. heteronomous b. autonomous cooperation d. homonomous
Mr. Chidie chases his 2-year-old son, Fana, saying, "I'm going to geech you!" When he catches Fana, he tickles him. Fana replies, "Geech, Daddy, geech!" in an attempt to receive another tickle
Fana's connection of the term "geech" with tickling is an example of A) fast-mapping. B) shading. C) syntactic bootstrapping. D) semantic bootstrapping.