Health Care > EXAM > The Wug Test Exam Question and Answers (All)

The Wug Test Exam Question and Answers

Document Content and Description Below

The wug test...Correct answers ...was an experiment in linguistics, carried out by Jean Burke-Gleason in 1958. It was designed to...Correct answers ...investigate acquisition of the plural and othe ... r inflectional morphemes in English-speaking children. Burke believed it proved...Correct answers ...that young children learn important aspects of language by finding patterns in the language that they hear around them, rather than by simply imitating others. She showed that children had implicit knowledge of English patterns for making noun plurals, verb tenses, and other basic morphological modifications to word stems, because they could attach the appropriate endings to nonsense word they had never learned before. The wug test involved...Correct answers ...the child being presented with a drawing of an unfamiliar creature and told, "this is a wug". Then...Correct answers ...another wug is revealed and the researcher says, "there are now two of them, there are two..." Finally...Correct answers ...children who have successfully acquired the allomorph /Z/ of the plural morpheme will respond, "wugs". The plural allomorphs are...Correct answers .../Z/, /S/, /tZ/. /Z/...Correct answers ...is the most general form of plural allomorph (dogs). /S/...Correct answers ...appears after voiceless consonants (consonants which can be formed without the larynx vibrating, such as in cats) /tZ/...Correct answers ...appears after sibilants (horses). [Show More]

Last updated: 3 years ago

Preview 1 out of 1 pages

Buy Now

Instant download

We Accept: