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 …

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 …

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...

5 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/, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …