All of the Following Statements About the Overregularization of Past

Multiple Choice

All of the following statements about the overregularization of past tense verb endings are true EXCEPT:

A) children of all ages are hearing essentially the same distributions of verbs and tenses
B) when they start to overregularize the past tense "-ed" rule, children are taking a pattern observed in a majority of instances and applying it to all cases
C) parents frequently provide feedback to children about the incorrect nature of overregularized forms
D) children usually have never heard these incorrect overregularizations in the speech of others