You are interested in your 5-year-old nephew's language development and so decide to give him a little test. You show him one object and say "This is a wug." Next, you show him three of these same objects and say "What are these?" You would expect him to say

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This test is based on Jean Berko Gleason's Wug Test, which is designed to investigate the acquisition of the plural and other morphological rules in children. If the child understands the rule for making plurals in English, they would likely apply it to the novel word "wug," resulting in "wugs." This demonstrates their ability to generalize grammatical rules to new words.

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