To Explain Why Children Sometimes Say "Ringed" Instead of "Rang

question 4

Multiple Choice

To explain why children sometimes say "ringed" instead of "rang," Marcus (1986) proposed that children:

• A) have no past-tense rules for irregular words stored in memory
• B) have formed incorrect associations between sound sequences within a complex neural network
• C) have stored irregular past tense rules, but occasionally misapply them
• D) don't intrinsically understand time, so that the application of the rule is simply random

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