Hearing, "The ape held the qwaff and ate it," a child guesses that "qwaff" is a type of food from the way this new word was used. This is

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Syntactical bootstrapping is the process by which children use the grammatical structure of a sentence to infer the meanings of words. In this example, the child used the context in which the unknown word "qwaff" was used to infer that it was a type of food.

Hearing, "The Ape Held the Qwaff and Ate It," a Child