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 …

2018年7月12日 · 格里森发现，当儿童们看到“wug”这个本不存在的词并想将其变成复数时，他们会自动将其变成/wʌgz/而不是/wʌgs/或者/wʌgɨz/。 这些儿童很明显并没有学过清浊音的区别，更不可能知道英文辅音的音系学规律，而且他们也从来没有在日常生活中听过家长或其他人 ...

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: /ɪz/ or /əz/, which appears after sibilants (horses, /'hɔ:sɪz/ or /'hɔrsəz/).

2024年8月27日 · The wug test is a linguistics tool for testing how well children have learned the morphemes associated with making nouns plural or...

A wug is a fake bird-like creature invented by linguists to test at what point a child is in in their English language development. Since "Wug" is a fake "pseudo"-word, the child would have never heard it before, but if they have progressed sufficiently in English they will be able to tell you the correct plural: wug/z/

In the field of linguistics, wug tests are used to find patterns. 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.

2016年12月5日 · 因为名气太大，试验都以它的名字命名，叫做Wug测试（Wug Test）。 用Wug检验语言能力的方法很简单，就是看图完成一道填空题。 图上只有一只Wug，下方文字是：This is a WUG（这是一只Wug）。 接下来的图则有两只Wug，文字是：Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two___....

In this chapter, we will focus primarily on the acquisition of the preeminent human symbol system: language. The dominant theme will once again be the relative contributions of nature and nurture. The sociocultural context is another prominent theme as we examine language acquisition across cultures and communities.

When used in a text, WUG means "Where You Going?". While this is its most common meaning in texting, be aware that it is a rare term, and it might mean something else. If our meaning does not fit, give the context of your conversation a name (e.g., love, sport, space, astronomy) and include it in your search term.