At the holophrastic stage of language acquisition, the one-word terms the child uses are
a. simply labels for common objects or actions that occur frequently.
b. typically imitations of adult words that have little meaning for the child.
c. believed to be attempts to express complex or elaborate ideas with only a single word.
d. the first evidence that the child's speech is rule-governed, not imitative.
C
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What will be an ideal response?
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