Children do not necessarily elect one single learning strategy for the entire language acquisition process. When acquiring new linguistic knowledge...

Children do not necessarily elect one single learning strategy for the entire language acquisition process. When acquiring new linguistic knowledge by analogy, for example, they often:

imply that words ending with the [s] sound, such as "horse", are already in the plural and fail to use the plural desinence appropriately.

apply the identified patterns to decide on the plural of similar words.

make mistakes such as "womans" (in the place of "women") and "mouses" (in the place of "mice").

memorize the plural forms of each word at a time, rather than overregularizing the use of the desinence "s".

elect rote as their sole learning strategy for the entire language acquisition process.