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Imagine that a young child is presented with a novel word, "encyclopedia," when her grandmother says, "Oh, look at the encyclopedia." In front of the child are two objects, a bright pink-covered book—"book" is a word the child already knows—and a green onion, an object the child has never seen before. The child is MOST likely to make the assumption that the novel word refers to the:_____________.A: book.B: pages of the book.C: color of the onion.D: onion.

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Answer: onion

Explanation: If the child knows that a book is the one object and the child has just learned a new word, the child will associate the new word with the unfamiliar green onion as it is an object the child has never seen before.

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