Le test de Wug
A linguistically invalid version of Berko Gleason’s Wug Test, en français! Celebrating the fact that the Wug test was mentioned in today’s Developmental Psych lecture and the (perhaps more important) fact that I thought it was super. I drew Les Wugs myself using my tablet.
Le test de Wug
A brief explanation of the Wug Test (via Wikipedia):
“The child is presented with some sort of pretend creature, and told, “This is a wug.” Another wug is revealed, and the researcher says, “Now there are two of them. There are two…?” Children who have successfully acquired the allomorph /z/ of the plural morpheme will respond: wugs /wʌɡz/.
Very young children are baffled by the question and are unable to answer correctly, sometimes responding with “Two wug.” 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.”
Tags: French, linguistics, psychology, Wug
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