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Two-year-old Jeremy is participating in a study in which the researcher said that she was looking for a "crug". She then pulled an object out of a paper bag, looked happy, and said, "Ah!" Later, when a different researcher asked Jeremy the name of the object, he told her that it was a "crug." This is an example of young children’s ability to use ______

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referential cues

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Studies have shown that a child who is 24 months old will use referential cues to speak a word. The child at this time will study the words which other people speak around him speak and he/she will try to speak those words. However, it might happen that the child might not e able to speak those words authentically. The child might also not know the meaning of those words. He just speaks them because he hear those words from other people around him.

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