A young child tells his mother that "when the dog growl at me, I runned home so fast, I hurt my foots."

The child's application of the normal past tense and plurals to irregular verbs and nouns illustrates the child's attempt to use
a. transformation rules.
b. the semantic differential.
c. disjunctive concepts.
d. a morpheme shift.


ANSWER: a

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