If the test subject has the plural morpheme in his or her English, the test subject will fill in the blank with “wugs.” If not, then the blank usually gets filled with “wug.” Here are the two panels, which show you what wugs look like.

2023年2月14日 · This process entails showing a child a series of fictional scenarios — like the first, one “wug” becoming two “wugs” — and then analyzing how well he or she pronounces the three “allomorph” sounds needed for plurality: “Z, “S” and “tZ.”

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? When there’s more than one wug there are two… wugs!

Preschoolers ages 4 to 5 test best in dealing with /z/ after a voiced consonant, and generally say that there are two wugs, with a /z/; they do almost as well with the voiceless /s/.

2021年2月22日 · We showed a picture of one bird and said, “This is a wug.” Then we showed a picture of two and asked them to make the plural: “These are two ___?” And the child would say, “Wugs.” Or “This is a man who zibs. He is a ___.” And the child would say, “Zibber.” What we found was that children behave in very predictable ways.

2024年12月23日 · It looks like something between a baby chicken and a doodle you might find in the margins of a student's notebook. This adorable creature has a name – it's called a wug. And in the world of linguistics, this simple drawing has achieved almost mythical status. But what exactly is a wug, and why do linguists get starry-eyed at its mere mention?

Preschoolers aged 4 to 5 test best in dealing with /z/ after a voiced consonant, and generally say that there are two wugs, with a /z/; they do almost as well with the voiceless /s/. They do less well in dealing with /z/ in other environments such as after nasals, rhotics, and vowels.

”There are two “有两只 ”。 如果儿童已学会加复数词尾，就会接着说wugs；如果还未学会，就会说wug。 在一系列形态上下文中用几个这样的无意义词测试，就可获知语素习得的词序和时间阶段。

2013年1月16日 · The name is fictional to ensure the child has never heard the word, or its plural form, before. The person conducting the experiment will then tell the child that the creature is called a wug. The child will then be shown a picture of two wugs; the researcher will say something along the lines of “Now there are two. There are two…?”

2014年10月27日 · As the internet’s leading wugologist (is anyone else a wugologist?), I’ve decided to begin collecting the diverse variety of wugs found in the world. After all, wugs come in all shapes, sizes, and colors! There is, of course, the classic original wug from this paper: