The Wug Test. Buy the Book! The complete Wug Test is now available in a spiral bound book, perfect for sharing with children aged 4-7! 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 about their own language.

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.

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 children possess implicit knowledge of linguistic morphology.

第一个，Gleason 1958年做了一个“瓦格”（wug）实验。英语中的复数形式有“s”, “z”两种发音，比如hats中是念”s”, eyes中则是念“z”. 在这个实验中，研究者创造了一些词，他们画了一些像鸡一样的小动物，给他们叫做“瓦格”（wug）。

2019年1月1日 · The Wug Test is a picture book for children and adults that uses invented nouns, verbs, and adjectives to illuminate what children know about their own language. This book includes the original delightful Wug Test drawings and test questions created by Professor Jean Berko Gleason in 1958.

The Wug Test is a picture book for children and adults that uses invented nouns, verbs, and adjectives to illuminate what children know about their own language. This book includes the original delightful Wug Test drawings and test questions created by Professor Jean Berko Gleason in 1958.

The Wug Test is a picture book for children and adults that uses invented nouns, verbs, and adjectives to illuminate what children know about their own language. This book includes the original delightful Wug Test drawings and test questions created by Professor Jean Berko Gleason in 1958.

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