The cognitive process by which children extract grammatical rules from language input, enabling them to generate correct sentences and understand novel linguistic constructions.
Example: Children inferring past tense rules from examples and then overgeneralizing them ("goed" instead of "went"), demonstrating active rule learning rather than simple memorization.
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