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 English-speaking children. In the original result of the Wug Test, children consistently produced wugs for …

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.

2023年2月14日 · The wug test is a linguistics tool for testing how well children have learned the morphemes associated with making nouns plural or...

2 天之前 · The correct answer is wugs, pronounced with a voiced /z/ sound, as in dogs, because the plural-forming letter follows a voiced consonant /g/. After a voiceless consonant such as /t/, the plural-forming letter should be a voiceless /s/, as in cats, and after a sibilant, an additional syllable should have a voiced /z/, as in verses.

A wug test uses made-up creatures (a wug is one such made-up creature) to figure out what some of the rules are that people follow when they speak that they probably don’t even know they follow. One of the areas where we follow specific rules is in plural formation.

The wug test is an experiment in linguistics, created by Jean Berko Gleason in 1958. It was designed as a way to investigate the acquisition of the plural and other inflectional morphemes in English-speaking children. There are three plural allomorphs in English /z/, …

The wug test is an experiment in linguistics, created by Jean Berko Gleason in 1958. It was designed as a way to investigate the acquisition of the plural and other inflectional morphemes in English-speaking children. There are three plural allomorphs in English: /z/, the most general form (dogs, pronounced /dɒgz/ or /dɑgz/)

2015年7月16日 · Her experiment aimed to investigate the acquisition of the plural and other inflectional morphemes in English-speaking children. The Wug test consisted of presenting the child with a made up creature which Gleason named a 'Wug' then presenting another and asking 'Now there are two...?'

If the children had learned the plural ending, they would say wugs; if they had not, they would say wug. Using several such nonsense words in a range of morphological contexts, much basic information was obtained concerning the order and timing …

2023年9月15日 · From wug, a made-up word used in the so-called wug test to investigate the acquisition of the plural form in English-speaking children. Coined in the 1950s by Dr. Jean Berko Gleason.