Nicholas is a bilingual child who sometimes produces an utterance in one language that contains one or more "guest" words from the other. Nicholas is engaging in
A) code switching.
B) semantic bootstrapping.
C) overregularization.
D) telegraphic speech.

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Code switching refers to the phenomenon where a bilingual person alternates between two languages while speaking. Nicholas is producing an utterance in one language that contains one or more "guest" words from the other language. This indicates that he is code switching between the two languages he knows. Semantic bootstrapping refers to the use of semantic knowledge to learn syntactic rules, overregularization refers to the application of regular grammatical rules to irregular words, and telegraphic speech refers to the use of simple, concise sentences without function words. These do not apply to Nicholas's behavior.

Nicholas Is a Bilingual Child Who Sometimes Produces an Utterance