Which of the following examples illustrates overregularization error?
A. Jessa told her mother that she "runed all around the yard."
B. Andrew learned the word Dalmatian and so he calls every animal with spots "Dalmatian."
C. Alex gets very upset when someone calls his football a "football" and insists that it is a "ball"--not a "football."
D. Lin asks her mother "Mommy food?" when she is hungry.
Answer: A
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