The words a child can say are referred to as the child's
A) distributional properties.
B) productive vocabulary.
C) categorical perception.
D) word segmentation.

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Children's productive vocabulary refers to the words they can actually say and use in conversation, as opposed to their receptive vocabulary which includes words they can understand but might not be able to produce. Distributional properties refer to the frequency and context in which words are used, categorical perception refers to the ability to distinguish between categories of speech sounds, and word segmentation refers to the ability to identify individual words within a continuous stream of speech.

The Words a Child Can Say Are Referred to as the Child's