overgeneralization Flashcards
1
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morphological overgeneralisation
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occurs at this stage, children apply patterns of inflections to irregular nouns. applying regular inflections to irregular words.
2
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semantic overgeneralisation
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where children extend word meaning or grammatical rules beyond their normal use e.g. (mu), ‘moon’, half-eaten cakes + bananas.
2
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semantic undergeneralisation
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where children use a word to refer to a smaller catergory of things than adults do e.g. might refer only to their family pet as ‘dog’ and not to other dogs they see.
3
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semantic field
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A semantic field is a group of words that are related in meaning because they belong to the same topic or category.
Example (Semantic Field: Weather):
rain
thunder
