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English to their children. Are similar types of words reported in those families?
5 Read the article by Jean Berko on her study using the Wug test (available via the CHILDES website). If you have access to a young child (four to seven years old), prepare “Wug” drawings and test the child's ability to generalize morphological rules to invented words, as done in her study. Do you find similar results? If not, can you offer any reasons why?
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further reading and viewing
1 Berko Gleason, J. and Bernstein Ratner, N. (2017). The Development of Language, 9e. Boston: Pearson.A thorough review of various aspects of first language acquisition. Comprehensive examination of phonological, morpho‐syntactic, vocabulary, and pragmatic aspects of language acquisition. Includes a glossary as well as project ideas and references for further reading.
2 Clark, E.V. (2016). First Language Acquisition, 3e. New York: Cambridge University Press.A classic volume written by a renowned scholar, with numerous examples illustrating first language acquisition.
3 Eliot, L. (2000). What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years. New York: Bantam.Written by a neurobiologist, this book goes beyond language development