Thursday, 26 September 2013

WUGS Experiment and Overgeneralisation

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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