phoneticfun:Jean Berko Gleason - professor emerita, language acquisition pioneer and inventor of the
phoneticfun:Jean Berko Gleason - professor emerita, language acquisition pioneer and inventor of the wug test. From wikipedia: Of her Wug Test, by which she demonstrated that even young children possess implicit knowledge of linguistic morphology, it has been said, “Perhaps no innovation other than the invention of the tape recorder has had such an indelible effect on the field of child language research”, the “wug” (one of the imaginary creatures Gleason drew in creating the Wug Test) being “so basic to what [psycholinguists] know and do that increasingly it appears in the popular literature without attribution to its origins.” -- source link