A mother and her four-year-old daughter hear the grandmother refer to the weather outside as "it's raining cats and dogs." The mother tends to get one meaning from this phrase, while her daughter is hoping for a lot of new pets.This situation illustrates a _____ problem in understanding the phrase, "it's raining cats and dogs."

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This is a semantic problem because the mother and daughter have different understandings of the meaning of the phrase "it's raining cats and dogs." They are interpreting the words differently, which is a semantic issue. The other options (syntactical, phonemic, grammatical) do not accurately describe the nature of the problem in this situation.

A Mother and Her Four-Year-Old Daughter Hear the Grandmother Refer