Berko's classic study in which she showed children a nonsense object labeled a "wug" and then presented the child with a picture of two of these objects to see how the child would supply the plural form of "wug" demonstrated that preschool
A) children's use of grammatical morphemes is based on rules.
B) children do not use inflection.
C) children's language is not based on rules.
D) children acquire a rule for using "un + verb" to reverse or stop the action of a verb.

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Berko's study demonstrated that children as young as preschool can apply grammatical morphemes to make the plural form of a new word they have never heard before. This suggests that children's language acquisition is based on rules rather than just memorization of individual words.

Berko's Classic Study in Which She Showed Children a Nonsense