A mother hands little Marc his familiar bowl, which contains a red fruit he has never seen before. She says, "Look, here are some strawberries!" When he sees this same fruit at dinnertime, he points and says a word something like "strawberries." Marc is demonstrating

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Fast mapping is the process by which children quickly connect a new word with its meaning after only a brief encounter. Marc is demonstrating this by associating the word "strawberries" with the fruit after being introduced to it once by his mother.

A Mother Hands Little Marc His Familiar Bowl, Which Contains