Eight-month-old Thea and her mother watch a grasshopper in their yard. Her mother labels the grasshopper and describes what it is doing. Thea and her mother are engaged in
A) telegraphic speech.
B) referential communication.
C) syntactic bootstrapping.
D) joint attention.
D
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