{"id":211796,"date":"2025-05-05T07:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T07:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=211796"},"modified":"2025-05-05T07:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T07:53:23","slug":"which-is-an-example-of-overextension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/05\/which-is-an-example-of-overextension\/","title":{"rendered":"Which is an example of overextension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Which is an example of overextension?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a. A child saying, \u201cHe hitted me with a stick\u201d<br>b. A child saying, \u201cThe moon looks happy tonight\u201d<br>c. A child calling all dogs \u201cSpot\u201d<br>d. A child saying \u201cI no like peas\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\"><strong>The correct answer and explanation is :<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Correct answer: c. A child calling all dogs \u201cSpot\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Overextension is a common phenomenon in early language development where a child applies a word more broadly than its typical use. This occurs when children overgeneralize a term they know to refer to multiple objects, often because they have not yet learned the correct word for all the different items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In option <strong>(c)<\/strong>, the child calls all dogs \u201cSpot.\u201d This is a classic case of overextension. \u201cSpot\u201d may be the name of the family dog, and the child has learned to associate all dogs with that name. The child understands the category \u201cdog,\u201d but lacks the vocabulary to distinguish individual dogs or doesn\u2019t realize that \u201cSpot\u201d is a proper noun, not a general term for dogs. Hence, the child uses the word \u201cSpot\u201d to label all dogs, extending the use of the word beyond its appropriate reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s look at the other options and why they are not examples of overextension:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>(a) \u201cHe hitted me with a stick\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 This is an example of <strong>overregularization<\/strong>, where a child applies a grammatical rule (adding \u2013ed for past tense) too broadly to irregular verbs. The correct past tense of \u201chit\u201d is \u201chit,\u201d but the child incorrectly says \u201chitted.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>(b) \u201cThe moon looks happy tonight\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 This is an example of <strong>personification<\/strong>, where the child attributes human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects. It is not overextension, since the child is not mislabeling an object with an overly broad category.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>(d) \u201cI no like peas\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 This reflects <strong>telegraphic speech<\/strong> or early sentence construction, where function words (like \u201cdo\u201d or \u201cnot\u201d) are omitted. It is a grammatical developmental phase, not a case of overextension.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In sum, overextension is about using one word to label multiple things inaccurately, as seen in <strong>option c<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is an example of overextension? a. A child saying, \u201cHe hitted me with a stick\u201db. A child saying, \u201cThe moon looks happy tonight\u201dc. A child calling all dogs \u201cSpot\u201dd. A child saying \u201cI no like peas\u201d The correct answer and explanation is : Correct answer: c. A child calling all dogs \u201cSpot\u201d Explanation: Overextension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}