According to the rules that young children use to learn the meaning of new words, when Ravisha points to a picture of a boy in a blue shirt and says "boy" her 13-month-old son will assume that the word "boy" refers to
A)the boy.
B)the boy's shirt.
C)the color blue.
D)the book that Ravisha is reading.

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Young children typically use a whole object assumption when learning the meaning of new words, which means they assume that the new word refers to the entire object they are currently focused on. In this case, the object in focus is the boy in the picture, so the 13-month-old will assume that the word "boy" refers to the boy himself, not his shirt, the color blue, or the book that Ravisha is reading.

According to the Rules That Young Children Use to Learn