Dr. Blather subscribes to the semantic bootstrapping hypothesis. With which of the following statements is he most likely to agree?

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The semantic bootstrapping hypothesis posits that children use their knowledge of semantic relationships between words to infer grammatical rules. This means that children gradually infer grammatical rules by detecting regularities in speech, which aligns with option A. Option B is incorrect because experience is vital for learning language, and option C is incorrect because the presence of an inborn grammar-learning device is not the sole explanation for language learning. Option D is incorrect because not all aspects of language are learned through imitation and reinforcement, and semantic relationships between words cannot be learned through imitation and reinforcement alone.

Dr Blather Subscribes to the Semantic Bootstrapping Hypothesis