Question

Six year old Matt has recently learned that an 's' is added to the end of a word when there are more than one of that thing. He uses this rule and writes 'cats','dogs', and 'mouses.' His use of this grammar rule is an example of:________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Over-regularization

Explanation:

Over-regularization corresponds to grammatical errors which typically occur in the early stages of the language learning process of a child where language rules are applied too loosely, rather than the idiosyncracies (words that do not obey the normal language rules) that all languages have. For example, a child uses the word mouses instead of mice to denote plural of mouse.