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Pointing to a tree, young leo says "bird flied away." leo's interesting but incorrect use of "-ed" in "flied" shows that he is trying to learn the _____ rules of language

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The answer that best fits the blank is the term MORPHOLOGICAL. In the given situation above wherein young Leo incorrectly used "-ed" in the word "flied", this shows that he is still learning the morphological rules of language. In linguistics, morphology is the study of how words are formed. 
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