Final answer:
When Ted says 'Mama go car,' it is an example of overregularization, where children broadly apply a grammatical rule in language development. The correct answer is b) Overregularization.
Step-by-step explanation:
When Ted says "Mama go car," it is an example of overregularization. Overregularization in language development refers to when children apply a general grammar rule too widely, mistakenly using it in cases where it does not apply. This often happens with learning verb tenses and pluralization.
For example, instead of saying 'mice,' a child might say 'mouses' because they overapply the rule that usually, an 's' indicates a plural form. In the case of Ted, although it's not a pluralization example, it may still reflect his developing understanding of language where he is starting to apply grammatical rules but hasn't yet learned all the exceptions or the correct word forms in specific contexts.
Overregularization occurs when children apply grammatical rules to irregular words that do not follow the general pattern. In this case, when Ted says 'Mama go car,' he is overgeneralizing the rule for verb conjugation by adding 'go' instead of 'goes'.
This is a common linguistic development error in young children as they acquire and internalize the rules of language.
The correct answer is b) Overregularization.