The wug test, which uses nonsense words, is an excellent way to test whether a child has acquired a particular inflectional rule (such as the past tense or plural rule) because children must apply their knowledge of a rule to a nonsense word (such as turning wug into wugs to indicate use of the plural rule).
What is the wug test?
The wug test was developed in 1958 by psycholinguistics professor Jean Berko Gleason at Boston University to evaluate how effectively toddlers had learnt the so-called "morphemes" that are responsible for making nouns plural or verbs past tense. This procedure comprises displaying a series of hypothetical situations to a youngster and assessing how effectively the child pronounces the three "allomorph" sounds necessary for plurality: "Z," "S," and "tZ." This test also assesses how effectively a student has actually mastered how to conjugate verbs in the past tense or how to make nouns possessive.
The wug test's major focus is on the three linguistic allomorphs for making nouns plural. The first sound, "Z," has a similar sound to "computers" or "goggles." The "S" allomorph resembles "rats" or "docks," just as it sounds. The "tZ" sound, which comes after sibilant sounds like "forces" or "stores," is the most understated.
The wug test advances through several allomorph varieties. The past tense placement skills of specific verb types are tested in some questions. A man is depicted holding an odd-looking thing on another flashcard. The inspector declares, "This is a man who knows how to rick." "He has ricked. He repeated his actions from yesterday. What did he do the day before?" The youngster is to respond, "Yesterday, he ricked."
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