Jean Berko Gleason (born 1931) is an American psycholinguist and professor emerita in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University [1] who has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of language acquisition in children, aphasia, gender differences in language development, and parent–child interactions.

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 understand the rules of language (specifically the addition of …

2018年7月12日 · 在1958年，心理语言学家格里森（Jean Berko Gleason）设计了一系列试验，给儿童提供自造的假词并给出语境，让儿童自己对词进行变形变位。 这个实验的目的在于考证儿童在习得语言的过程中是否会自己总结出规律，还是对于环境所提供的语言进行死记硬背（因为实验中所用的词全部都是假词，儿童不可能在生活中听到过）。 更加有趣的是，以英文为母语的儿童不仅仅能够掌握在词尾加s，他们往往还会遵守音系学规律。 在英文中，当名词变成复数时，词尾 …

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 two cartoon panels—one depicting one wug with the caption “This is a wug,” and the other depicting two wugs with the caption “Now there is another one.

Jean Berko Gleason (born December 19, 1931, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) is an American psycholinguist best known as the creator of the Wug Test, a tool used to study children’s language acquisition. A pioneer in the field of children’s language, Gleason has been called the founder of experimental developmental psycholinguistics .

2021年7月23日 · The wug is a cute fictional birdlike-creature created by Jean Berko-Gleason in 1958 to test whether children could extend their knowledge of grammar to works they’d never seen before. Why are there two?

2024年8月27日 · Boston University is the home of psycholinguistics professor Jean Berko Gleason, who created the wug test in 1958 as a linguistics tool for testing how well children had learned the so-called "morphemes" associated with making

2021年2月22日 · For over 60 years, Jean Berko Gleason, PhD ’58, has been a leader in the study of the way human beings acquire language. Now professor emerita at Boston University, Gleason reflects on her time at GSAS, the field of psycholinguistics, and the groundbreaking “Wug Test” that forever changed scientists’ understanding of how children learn ...

2011年1月1日 · PDF | An interview with Dr. Jean Berko Gleason (most famous for the Wug Test), Professor Emeritus, Boston University. | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

1987年1月1日 · Berko's Wug technique, which refers to the use of nonce (invented) words to test linguistic knowledge, has been used with a wide range of age groups. Imperfect results with the test stimuli were typically obtained from children who fully controlled the construction in question in their spontaneous speech.