Question

Pointing to a tree, young leo says "bird flied away." leo's interesting but incorrect use of "-ed" in "flied" shows that he is trying to learn the _____ rules of language

Answer 1

The answer that best fits the blank is the term MORPHOLOGICAL. In the given situation above wherein young Leo incorrectly used "-ed" in the word "flied", this shows that he is still learning the morphological rules of language. In linguistics, morphology is the study of how words are formed.