Children acquire vocabulary so efficiently and accurately that some theorists believe that
A) principles such as mutual exclusivity bias have no bearing on language development.
B) it is governed by different cognitive strategies than those applied to nonlinguistic information.
C) children reject a coalition of perceptual, social, and linguistic cues in favor of rote learning.
D) they are innately biased to induce word meanings using certain principles.

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The statement accurately describes the concept of innate biases towards word learning in children. Theorists suggest that children have an innate bias towards principles such as mutual exclusivity and semantic bootstrapping, which aid efficient and accurate vocabulary acquisition. This is different from how they learn other non-linguistic information, such as through trial and error or association.

Children Acquire Vocabulary So Efficiently and Accurately That Some Theorists