Baby Todd's mother notices that he makes a variety of sounds including cooing, crying, gurgling, and murmuring, along with facial expressions, gestures, imitation, and other nonlinguistic means. Baby Todd is demonstrating __________
a) phonology
b) morphemes
c) semantics
d) prelinguistic communication
Answer: d
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