According to the __________ approach, young children rely on word meanings to figure out grammatical rules.
A) fast-mapping
B) semantic bootstrapping
C) mutual exclusivity
D) syntactic bootstrapping

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The semantic bootstrapping approach suggests that young children use word meanings to figure out grammatical rules. They use their knowledge of the meaning of words they know to infer the meaning of new words and also use the word meanings to identify the syntactic categories to which they belong. Thus B is the correct answer.

According to the __________ Approach, Young Children Rely on Word