On the day 3-year-old Isabel helped her father build bookshelves, she added the terms "board," "measuring tape," and "dowel" to her vocabulary after her first encounter with these objects. This is an example of:
A) a language acquisition device.
B) fast mapping.
C) telegraphic speed.
D) linguistic relativity.
B) fast mapping.
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