You ask Chaser, a border collie, to fetch something that she has never heard of before, but the item is placed among a variety of other items that she already knows. Chaser will then select the new item appropriately. What is the name for this process by which Chaser learns new words?
A) Inference
B) Exclusion
C) Artificial language
D) Semantics

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This process is known as exclusion, where the dog infers that the new word must refer to the unfamiliar item among the known items.

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