Four-year-old Jimmy tells you he "runned fast but falled down." Jimmy's speech exemplifies ___; your text suggests that such errors provide evidence for the role of ___ in language development.
A) overregularization; biology
B) overregularization; learning
C) agrammaticism; biology
D) agrammaticism; learning

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Jimmy's speech exemplifies overregularization, which occurs when children apply general grammatical rules too broadly, indicating they are learning and internalizing the rules of language. This suggests that learning plays a significant role in language development, as children learn and apply grammatical rules, sometimes over-applying them before fully mastering the exceptions.

Four-Year-Old Jimmy Tells You He "Runned Fast but Falled Down