What is a child likely to assume when an experimenter points to two objects that have the same shape but are different colors?
A) The child will think that the two objects have the same linguistic label.
B) The child will assume no relation between the two.
C) The child will ignore the shapes and focus on the colors.
D) The child will assume that the two objects have different labels but are related on a subordinate level.

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Children tend to assume that objects with the same shape share the same linguistic label, a phenomenon known as the shape bias. This reflects their understanding of how language categorizes objects based on shape rather than color or size.

What Is a Child Likely to Assume When an Experimenter