A mother hands little Marc his familiar bowl, which contains a red fruit he has never seen before. She says, "Look, here are some strawberries!" When he sees this same fruit at dinnertime, he points and says a word something like "strawbe

Marc is demonstrating:
a. overextension.
b. fast mapping.
c. an appreciation of syntax.
d. an appreciation of pragmatics.


Ans: b

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