Three- and four-year old children's misinterpretation of passive sentences such as The car was pushed by the truck probably reflects
a. their failure to understand the lexical items in the sentence
b. behavioral biases
c. the fact that such sentences are irreversible passives
d. their use of an English word-order strategy
d
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