At the age of 15 months,Anita repeatedly cries "hoy" when she wants her mother to hold her. Anita is most likely in the ________ stage of language development.

A) syntactic
B) babbling
C) telegraphic speech
D) one-word

Language Development

The process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive, produce, and use words to understand and communicate.

One-word Stage

A developmental phase in early childhood where children begin to communicate with single words.

Syntactic Stage

The phase in language development in which children begin to understand and use the rules of sentence structure and grammar.