
The Threat Shouldn T Be Overgeneralized
In linguistics, overgeneralization is the application of a grammatical rule in cases where it doesn't apply The term overgeneralization is most often used in connection with language acquisition by children For example, a young child may say "foots" instead of "feet," overgeneralizing the morphological rule for making plural nounsExamples coming up You can help yourself a lot if you can learn how to detect when you are basing your actions on overgeneralized thoughts Almost any thought can become overgeneralized