According to the rules that young children use to learn the meanings of new words, when Ravisha points to a picture of a boy in a blue shirt and says "boy" her 13-month-old son will assume that the word "boy" refers to

a. the boy.
b. the boy's shirt.
c. the color blue.
d. the book that Ravisha is reading.

a

Psychology

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