Question

When a child says, "I eated my cookie," the child is demonstrating:

a. Overregularization
b. Telegraphic speech
c. Telegraphic regularity
d. Receptive language skills

Answer 1

A child saying "I eated my cookie" is an example of overregularization in language development, where grammatical rules are misapplied to exceptions.

Step-by-step explanation:

When a child says, "I eated my cookie," the child is demonstrating overregularization. Overregularization in language development occurs when children misapply a grammatical rule because they have inferred that rule from the other correct instances they have encountered.

For example, adding "ed" to the end of a verb to indicate past tense can be overapplied, which in this case leads to "eated" instead of the irregular form "ate." This is an example of how children are actively learning and understanding the rules of their language, even as they learn to recognize the exceptions to those rules.