Tyrone groups words with agent qualities as subjects and words with action qualities as verbs. He then merges these categories into sentences. Tyrone is demonstrating
A) semantic bootstrapping.
B) syntactic bootstrapping.
C) telegraphic speech.
D) semantic complexity.

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Semantic bootstrapping is the process by which children use their knowledge of word meanings to make inferences about the grammatical structure of their language, such as distinguishing between subjects and verbs based on their semantic roles (agent qualities and action qualities, respectively).

Tyrone Groups Words with Agent Qualities as Subjects and Words