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.”

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!

2018年7月12日 · 在英文中，当名词变成复数时，词尾的s有三种发音形式： 当原词以清音结束读作/s/：hat /hæt/ 变成 hats /hæts/ 当原词以浊音（包括元音）结束读作/z/：eye /ai/ 变成eyes /aiz/ 当原词以齿擦音结束读作/ɨz/：witch /wɪtʃ/ 变成witches /wɪtʃɨz/ 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 …

2024年12月23日 · The test was beautifully straightforward: Show a child a picture of a strange creature and tell them, "This is a wug." Then show them another identical creature and ask, "Now there are two of them. There are two ___?" Most English-speaking children would confidently respond, "wugs." Why is this magical? Here's where it gets fascinating.

4 天之前 · 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. The correct answer is wugs, pronounced with a voiced /z/ sound, as in dogs, because the …

實驗結果是，年紀極小的幼兒無法回答正確答案，但一般達五歲的孩子已能輕易自信地答出：「These are two wugs.」（這是兩隻wug）。 看得出實驗的巧妙處嗎？ 首先，它推翻了很多人抱的「兒童純粹以模仿來學語言」的觀念。 不，兒童不是copy cat，他們不是因為聽了一億次「an apple」的組合，又聽了一億次「two apples」的組合，所以他們能夠囫圇吞棗照板煑碗地製造出apple的單／眾數形式。 因為單純從經驗中模仿抄襲，他們不能答對「wug」的眾數是「wugs …

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。