Children tend to rely on the literal meaning of an utterance, even when prosody strongly suggest a nonliteral meaning, in what is known as the __________ bias.
a. categorical
b. confirmation
c. lexical
d. literal
Ans: c. lexical
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false