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.

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...

2018年7月12日 · 这个可爱的形似小鸟的“wug”因为一个实验而深入人心，在语言学界名声大噪，很多人把它印在衬衫上、马克杯上，甚至有人把它纹在身上。 小编的系主任办公室门上就贴着下面这个图片。

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 …

4 天之前 · 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 second instance is presented, and the child is asked what the two are called.

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. This book includes the original delightful Wug Test drawings and test questions created by Professor Jean Berko Gleason in 1958.

2011年1月1日 · The Wug test was applied to the subject to determine the level of acquisition of the plural morphemes, third person singular morphemes, and past tense morphemes of regular verbs.

2021年2月22日 · In the 1950s, you created a new way to study language acquisition in children: The Wug Test. Can you explain what it is and how it works? As I said before, we can analyze language.

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 …