Question

A child learning English as an L1 or an adult learning English as an L2 may put the past tense -ed morpheme onto irregular verbs; for example, they may say finded instead of found, or goed instead of went. This phenomenon is called ________.

Answer 1

Answer:

overgeneralization

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

This phenomenon is called overgeneralization.

Explanation:

Overgeneralization is a gramatical mistake, that happends when a person applies a grammatical rule to cases that it that does not apply. Learning grammar means to know when to apply which rule, this takes time and so people can make mistakes. In this case they apply the rule that works for past tense regular verbs, an use it with irregular verbs.