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.

2018年7月12日 · 在1958年，心理语言学家格里森（Jean Berko Gleason）设计了一系列试验，给儿童提供自造的假词并给出语境，让儿童自己对词进行变形变位。 这个实验的目的在于考证儿童在习得语言的过程中是否会自己总结出规律，还是对于环境所提供的语言进行死记硬背（因为实验中所用的词全部都是假词，儿童不可能在生活中听到过）。 更加有趣的是，以英文为母语的儿童不仅仅能够掌握在词尾加s，他们往往还会遵守音系学规律。 在英文中，当名词变成复数时，词尾 …

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...

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.

Wug测试表明幼儿从他们周围的语言中提取了规则，而不是简单地记住他们听过的单词。 这个测试在其他语言的孩子，双语儿童，以及各种障碍或来自不同文化背景的儿童（和成人）中得到了相同的结果。

What is a Wug Test? Language is full of patterns. Without even being aware of it, we follow a set of rules which allow us to understand each other when we speak. In the field of linguistics, wug tests are used to find patterns.

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.

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.

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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 …