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" are examples of overregularization, which occur when a child applies a regular morphological rule to an irregular verb. In this case, the regular rule of adding "-ed" to the end of a verb to indicate past tense has been applied to the irregular verbs "run" and "throw".

Cameron Is a Toddler and Describes His Time on the Playground