Wug test

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: The child is presented with some sort of pretend creature, and told, "This is a wug." Another wug is revealed,...
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