Toddlers' telegraphic speech ______________________.

A. reflects their capacity to flexibly form novel sentences that follow subject-verb and verb-object relations
B. display gross grammatical errors , such as "book my" instead of "my book"
C. largely involve combining new verbs with nouns they know well
D. are usually copies of adult two-word pairings rather than flexibly grammatical constructions


Answer: D

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