A wug is an imaginary cartoon creature created and first used by psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason to test people’s ability to use the English plural morpheme*. The test usually involves …

Gleason created the Wug Test, in which a child is shown pictures with nonsense names and then prompted to complete statements about them, and used it to demonstrate that even young …

2018年7月12日 · 格里森发现，当儿童们看到“wug”这个本不存在的词并想将其变成复数时，他们会自动将其变成/wʌgz/而不是/wʌgs/或者/wʌgɨz/。 这些儿童很明显并没有学过清浊音的区别，更 …

2023年2月14日 · The wug test is one of several tests that teachers can use to test a student’s mastery of phonetic skills. All of these types of examinations are part of a field called …

2023年11月21日 · wug (plural chiefly wugs; see usage notes) (linguistics) An imaginary creature resembling a bird, used in the Wug Test to investigate the acquisition of the plural form in …

See the Wugs, Gutches and Kazhes that started it all! The Wug Test is a picture book for children and adults that uses invented nouns, verbs, and adjectives to illuminate what children know …

Wug测试表明幼儿从他们周围的语言中提取了规则，而不是简单地记住他们听过的单词。 这个测试在其他语言的孩子，双语儿童，以及各种障碍或来自不同文化背景的儿童（和成人）中得到了 …

2025年3月17日 · A test designed to investigate the acquisition of plural-formation and other rules of grammar. A child is presented with an imaginary object and is told, ‘This is a wug’. Then a …

In his most famous research, which would later be known as “the wug experiment,” Berko worked with girls and boys between 4 and 7 years old. Her goal was analyze the ability of children to …

A nonsense word invented in the late 1950s for a language acquisition experiment into the learning of morphology. The drawing of a mythical animal (a wug) was presented to children, …