Regarding the manner in which children learn to use the past tense of verbs,McClelland and Rumelhart argued for which position?
A) Children learn to use the past tense for verbs only after they have learned to use the plural form of nouns.
B) Over-regularization is an essential element to the sequence in which children learn to use the past tense.
C) Children who grow up in cultures that use a language that has the SOV form take longer to learn to use the past tense.
D) Children learn to use the past tense of verbs without actually learning that there is a rule for its use.

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McClelland and Rumelhart argued for the position that children learn to use the past tense of verbs without actually learning that there is a rule for its use. They suggest that children's acquisition of the past tense is a result of implicit learning – they become sensitive to the patterns in the language they hear and use this knowledge to generate the appropriate form of the verb. Over-regularization, where children apply the regular rule to an irregular verb (e.g. "goed" instead of "went"), is seen as a byproduct of this process rather than an essential element in the sequence of learning. Cultural differences in language structure are also not seen as important factors in learning the past tense.

Regarding the Manner in Which Children Learn to Use the Past