Fast mapping is__________________
a. how children learn grammar
b. how children learn pragmatics
c. the ability to connect new grammatical forms to categories
d. the ability to connect a new word to a category
Answer: D
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a. males under 5 years of age b. males or females 3 to 8 years of age c. males and females 9 to 12 years of age d. males 13 to 16 years of age
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a. phonetics b. semantics c. morphology d. pragmatics
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