Five-year-old Westly hears the sentence, "Westly, quit clowning around." He knows all the other words, but he has never heard the word "clowning" before. The fact that he understands that the word "clowning" must be referring to what he is currently doing is best explained as involving ____ cues.
A) sentence
B) pictorial
C) kinetic
D) parallax

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Sentence cues allow Westly to infer the meaning of "clowning" based on his understanding of the structure and context of the sentence, even though he has not previously encountered the word.

Five-Year-Old Westly Hears the Sentence, "Westly, Quit Clowning Around