Early in vocabulary growth, children adopt a mutual exclusivity bias, which is the assumption that ________.

A. an object in space cannot be in two places at the same time
B. words always have two meanings, but never more than two
C. words refer to entirely separate, nonoverlapping categories
D. the structure of sentences can be determined by relying on the meanings of words


Answer: C

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