When 3-year-old Rosalie complained,"Boris hitted me with a ball," she was illustrating the tendency of young children to

A) use telegraphic speech patterns.
B) imitate the speech patterns of others.
C) receive inadequate reinforcement for correct language usage.
D) overgeneralize certain grammatical rules in sentence construction.

Grammatical Rules

The set of structural guidelines governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

Sentence Construction

The process of arranging words in a specific order to create grammatical and meaningful sentences in a language.

Telegraphic Speech

A stage in child language acquisition, where speech consists mainly of content words with essential grammatical markers missing.