Five-year-old Brian hears the sentence, "Brian, 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

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In this case, Brian is understanding the word "clowning" based on contextual cues within the sentence, which falls under the category of sentence cues.

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