Camilla's mother is watching an animal video show with her, and says, "That deer has magnificent antlers." Camilla may not immediately know what "magnificent" means but she will know it is an adjective (i.e., it refers to a property of antlers). This illustrates which aspect of learning word meanings?
A. associative learning
B. fast mapping
C. the mutual exclusivity assumption
D. the importance of syntactic context to learning word meanings
Answer: D
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