Avi is 13 months old and has a large vocabulary for her age. The words she can say are referred to as her
A) distributional properties.
B) productive vocabulary.
C) categorical perception.
D) word segmentation.

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Avi's ability to say a large number of words at her age is referred to as productive vocabulary. This is the set of words that a child is able to produce themselves, as opposed to receptive vocabulary, which is the set of words that a child can understand but may not yet be able to produce. The other answer choices (distributional properties, categorical perception, and word segmentation) all refer to different aspects of language development, but are not directly related to Avi's vocabulary size.

Avi Is 13 Months Old and Has a Large Vocabulary