Children's ability to use word meanings to help them work out the most likely grammatical structure of new utterances is known as:
A) semantic bootstrapping.
B) the mutual exclusivity bias.
C) syntactic bootstrapping.
D) overregularization.

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Semantic bootstrapping is the process by which children use the meanings of words to infer their grammatical roles and the structure of sentences.

Children's Ability to Use Word Meanings to Help Them Work