Jay introduced a new ball to his 2-year-old daughter, Kandi. He said, "I'm throwing the wiffle ball to you!" He then threw the new ball to Kandi. Kandi said, "Catch, wiffle, catch!" Kandi's connection of the term "wiffle" to the ball is an example of ________.
A. overregularization
B. metacognition
C. fast-mapping
D. semantic bootstrapping
Answer: C
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