Linguistic Rules Seem to Be the Source of Children's Overregularization

question 8

Multiple Choice

Linguistic rules seem to be the source of children's overregularization errors.This sort of error is visible,for example,whenever a child

• A)uses a regular sequence of words to express an idea even though a different sequence would be more effective.
• B)sees a squirrel and says,"There's a cat!"
• C)says,"I goed" or "He runned."
• D)fails to distinguish between similar speech sounds.

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