Jeff's mother points to a tree and says, "tree." Jeff knows that the word "tree" refers to the tree and not to a branch or a leaf because of what Markman (1989, 1992) referred to as the ___ constraint

a. fast mapping
b. mutual-exclusivity
c. taxonomic
d. whole-object

D

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