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 heard, "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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The study showed that infants were able to differentiate between the two scenes based on the word order they heard, indicating their sensitivity to word order. There is no evidence in the study to suggest that they were explicitly using intention to comprehend meaning or using syntactic bootstrapping.

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