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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024o•ver•gen•er•al•i•za•tion (ō′vər jen′ər ə lə zā′shən),USA pronunciation n. - Linguisticsthe act or process of overgeneralizing.
- Linguisticsthe result of overgeneralizing.
- Linguistics(in language acquisition) the process of extending the application of a rule to items that are excluded from it in the language norm, as when a child uses the regular past tense verb ending -ed of forms like I walked to produce forms like *I goed or *I rided.
- over- + generalization 1945–50
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