Barrons AP Psychology 7th edition

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

  1. (C) According to Noam Chomsky, children’s innate language acquisition device enables them to
    decode grammatical rules amazingly quickly. Sometimes, in the process, they apply the rules when
    it is incorrect to do so; that is, they overgeneralize. A child who understands the idea that the past
    tense in English is often denoted by the addition of -ed, therefore might add -ed to irregular verbs
    like go.

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