Cameron is a toddler and describes his time on the playground to his mother: "I runned fast and throwed the ball." Cameron's uses of runned and throwed are examples of ____.

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Cameron's use of "runned" and "throwed" is an example of overregularization, which is a common language development stage in which children apply regular grammar rules to irregular verbs (such as adding "-ed" to form the past tense).

Cameron Is a Toddler and Describes His Time on the Playground