Abstract
Children go on to achieve remarkable cognitive feat in language acquisition. They demonstrate general knowledge and understanding of basic patterns in their language within the first few years of life. Children extend the meaning of words they hear by applying grammatical principles in new circumstances. Despite having this remarkable ability to learn and comprehend language at a young age, children make numerous errors and mistakes as their language knowledge and understanding grows. Overgeneralization, overextension and underextension are three common mistakes in early word use which are altogether mentioned as ‘developmental errors’ in psycholinguistics. In this paper these three types of errors will be presented through the analysis of data collected from young Bengali speaking children aged 1 to 2.5 years.
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