Which best describes the relationship between phonological and lexical development?
A. phonological development leads lexical development: children's first words are composed of sounds from within children's phonological inventory and children with larger inventories usually have larger vocabularies
B. lexical development leads phonological development: as the size of children's lexicons gets larger, they develop more precise phonology in order to distinguish among the words.
C. neither answer A nor B are true: phonological and lexical development operate wholly independently from each other.
D. both answers A and B are true: the relationship between phonological and lexical development is an inter-dependent one.
D
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