{"id":8668,"date":"2019-05-22T16:10:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/overgeneralization\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:10:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:13","slug":"overgeneralization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/overgeneralization\/","title":{"rendered":"Overgeneralization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use of a sound in a wider range than permitted by the adult language. &nbsp;For example, a child might refer to a &#8216;tiger&#8217; as a &#8216;kitty&#8217; or &#8216;mouses&#8217; for &#8216;mice&#8217;, in the latter case overgeneralization the morphological rule for plural nouns. &nbsp;It is not a case of imitating adult speech, but rather attempts to work out grammatical rules involving plural nouns and past tenses (e.g., &#8216;bringed&#8217; for &#8216;brought&#8217;). &nbsp;Children eventually adjust their self-formulated rules in order to accommodate such exceptions in past tenses and plural nouns, something referred to as the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/pcwww.liv.ac.uk\/~ambridge\/Papers\/WIREOvergeneralization.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/pcwww.liv.ac.uk\/~ambridge\/Papers\/WIREOvergeneralization.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retreat from overgeneralization<\/a>&#8216;. &nbsp;This process of change can appear to be U-shaped in that children seem to be getting worse in their accuracy of using irregular past tenses and plural nouns. &nbsp;The opposite of overgeneralization is undergeneralization. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"language_development\">Language development<\/a>, <a href=\"pleonastic_extensions\">Pleonastic extensions<\/a>, Undergeneralization <\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use of a sound in a wider range than permitted by the adult language. &nbsp;For example, a child might refer to a &#8216;tiger&#8217; as a &#8216;kitty&#8217; or &#8216;mouses&#8217; for &#8216;mice&#8217;, in the latter case overgeneralization the morphological rule for plural nouns. &nbsp;It is not a case of imitating adult speech, but rather attempts to work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/overgeneralization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Overgeneralization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}