Children will often form the correct past tense of a verb shortly before or after using the incorrect past tense of a verb. One explanation for why children overregularize at some times and not others is that
a. children want the attention they receive when being corrected for using the wrong form of a verb.
b. children may forget the exception to a general rule for forming tense.
c. children are unaware that one form is correct and one is not.
d. children who overregularize lack a neurological function necessary for the discrimination of correct and incorrect verb tenses.
B
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