All of the Following Statements About the Overregularization of Past

question 61

Multiple Choice

All of the following statements about the overregularization of past tense verb endings are true EXCEPT:

• A) children of all ages are hearing essentially the same distributions of verbs and tenses
• B) when they start to overregularize the past tense "-ed" rule, children are taking a pattern observed in a majority of instances and applying it to all cases
• C) parents frequently provide feedback to children about the incorrect nature of overregularized forms
• D) children usually have never heard these incorrect overregularizations in the speech of others

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