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Jean Berko Gleason's 1958 study is hailed as a pivotal investigation into children's word-form use. Based on her results, what prediction would you make about how complex word forms are learned by children of the same age as those in the study?


A) Upon hearing the word foot for the first time, a child will incorrectly guess that the plural of foot is foots.
B) Upon hearing the word foot for the first time, a child will correctly guess that the plural of foot is feet.
C) A child will not be able to correctly produce the plural form of a regular noun like figs without hearing the correct plural form at least once.
D) In guessing the plural form of nouns like hand and tooth, a child will be equally likely to make errors with regular forms like hands and irregular forms like teeth unless she has heard these plural forms before.

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