Mr. Chidie chases his 2-year-old son, Fana, saying, "I'm going to geech you!" When he catches Fana, he tickles him. Fana replies, "Geech, Daddy, geech!" in an attempt to receive another tickle
Fana's connection of the term "geech" with tickling is an example of
A) fast-mapping.
B) shading.
C) syntactic bootstrapping.
D) semantic bootstrapping.
A
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