Children's overregularization errors are an indicator that they
A) use words they are able to produce in place of those they are not yet able to produce.
B) internalize grammatical rules.
C) are able to remove the nonessential elements of speech to reduce the number of words per utterance.
D) memorize the plural forms of individual nouns and the tenses of individual verbs.

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Overregularization errors occur when children apply grammatical rules too broadly, such as saying "hitted" instead of "hit" or "gooses" instead of "geese." This suggests that they have internalized the rules of their language and are trying to apply them to new words, even if they don't yet have a full understanding of how irregular words deviate from the rules.

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