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Over‑regularisation
From Teflpedia
Over‑regularisation is the noted tendency for language learners — both first language learners (especially young children) and second language learners — to apply regular language rules incorrectly to irregularities.
Most commonly, this occurs in English:
- With irregular plurals, e.g. *two mouses, *three sheeps, etc.
- With irregular lexical verbs, e.g. *I goed home.
Over-regularisations can generally be understood, and in real life the listener may ignore errors and not correct. Recasting can be used to correct learners.
