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: : book. b: pages of the book. c: color of the onion. d: onion.