"Lexical contrast" is a constraint on word meanings that
a. young children make inferences about word meanings by contrasting new words with known words.
b. suggests a name applies to the whole object.
c. objects sharing a category are similar to each other.
d. categories are separate and nonoverlapping.
A
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