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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Jennifer Kronovet

Idioms

October 10, 2014

Jennifer Kronovet

Subject L was informally experimented upon as a child by her father. A lawyer by trade, he moonlighted as a secular Jewish Buddhist philosopher. Father: Imagine a cup. L: Okay. F: Do you hear the word cup while you imagine? … Continued

Jean Berko Gleason

December 31, 2013

Jennifer Kronovet

  Gleason developed the WUG Test in 1958: This is a WUG. Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two _______. This man zibs. A man who zibs is a _______. The children made the … Continued

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