In a study by Hirsh-Pasek and Golinkoff, when infants were shown two videotaped scenes, one with a woman kissing keys while holding a ball and the other with a woman kissing a ball while holding keys and hearing "She's kissing the keys," infants
A)were sensitive to word order.
B)learned from syntactic bootstrapping.
C)used intention to comprehend meaning.
D)did all of these.

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Infants were sensitive to word order as they looked longer at the scene that matched the sentence they heard, indicating they understood the relationship between the words and the actions.

In a Study by Hirsh-Pasek and Golinkoff, When Infants Were