Children acquire vocabulary so efficiently and accurately that some theorists believe that
A) principles such as mutual exclusivity bias have no bearing on language development.
B) it is governed by different cognitive strategies than those applied to nonlinguistic information.
C) children reject a coalition of perceptual, social, and linguistic cues in favor of rote learning.
D) they are innately biased to induce word meanings using certain principles.
Answer: D
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A) "I watched a lot of violent television growing up." B) "I used to watch my older brother beat up on neighbourhood kids." C) "The man I assaulted provoked me. It wasn't intentional, but I didn't care." D) "I'm a huge fan of boxing and watch all the bouts." E) "There was a gun in the room when it happened."
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What will be an ideal response?