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[pne]

Two Amy-isms: -Today we can eat after get-dressed-ing. -Two nurses (with /Iz/ form of the morpheme - apparently the last to be acquired typically)

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[lexabear.livejournal.com]

This comment is only to use my appropriate icon.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ah yes! I thought of giving her a wug test again (I downloaded one with a bunch of image files a while back), but I didn't have it with me here on holiday. (And last time, she got bored after a couple of images anyway and stopped cooperating, so it was rather inconclusive.)

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

What is a wug test?

wug test

[pne.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wug_test

Essentially, a way to see whether children have already acquired[*] some common morphemes, such as plural -s (pronounced -s -z -iz, depending on the word, e.g. "cats" with -s, "dogs" with -z and "boxes" with -iz), agentive -er (as in paint -> painter), regular past -ed (as in rest -> rested) or -y (as in spot -> spotty).

[*] Acquired in the sense that the children have generalised those morphemes and can apply them even to words they cannot have heard before.

For example, they might be shown a picture of a cartoon bird and told that this is wug. On the next picture, there will be two of those birds and the child will be prompted along the lines of, "Now there is another wug. Now there are two ____" in order to see whether the child will come up with "wugs".