WUG experiment
Watch the following clip from youtube which features the linguistic Jean Berko going thhtough her 'Wug' experiment. What do you think she was trying to show with her experiment? Why did she choose imaginary words?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElabA5YICsA
Overgeneralisations
What is happening in the following examples taken from children's speech?
I runned
two mouses
my foots
he feeled shy
he satted on the truck
he drived himself.
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