children English irregular past tense overregularization

Children may say "gived" after first learning "gave"

A child may correctly learn the word "gave," later start saying "gived," and eventually return to "gave." One explanation is that the child has learned the general rule for making past tense and begins applying it too widely before mastering the exceptions.

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