Syntactic bootstrapping refers to children's use of the _____ as a cue to figure out the meaning of a novel word.
A) focus of adults' attention
B) grammatical category of the novel word
C) structure of the whole sentence
D) contrastive use of a familiar and an unfamiliar word

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Syntactic bootstrapping involves children using the structure of the whole sentence to infer the meaning of a novel word.

Syntactic Bootstrapping Refers to Children's Use of the _____ as a Cue