Mr. Chidie chases his 2-year-old son, Fana, saying, "I'm going to geech you!" When he catches Fana, he tickles him. Fana replies, "Geech, Daddy, geech!" in an attempt to receive another tickle. Fana's connection of the term "geech" with tickling is an example of

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Fana's ability to connect the term "geech" with tickling after hearing it used by his father is an example of fast-mapping. Fast-mapping is the process by which children quickly learn and store new words in their mental lexicon after being exposed to them. Fana was able to associate the term "geech" with the tickling because of the context in which it was used, which is a characteristic of fast-mapping. Shading and syntactic bootstrapping are unrelated to this scenario. Semantic bootstrapping is a theory that suggests that children use their knowledge of grammar to infer the meaning of novel words, which is not the case in this scenario.

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