Learn Words from Our TV!

For children that are 3 years old (36 to 48 months old) who are learning English at home. Participants must be located in the United States and hearing English speech at least 40% of the time. Each child may only participate in this study once.

Your child will be seeing a lot of familiar objects, some labeled with their familiar English-language word and some labeled with a made-up new word. Sometimes, your child will hear a verb that helps them guess which object the made-up new word means, such as seeing a cup and a tree and hearing “I wash the dax” and then guessing that “dax” might mean cup (because the cup is something you can wash). Afterwards, there will be some quick questions about your child and their exposure to different languages.

Children have lots of ways to learn new words. For example, if a child hears the word "let's eat the snickerdoodle" without knowing it's a cookie, what parts of a sentence do they use to help them find out it is something they can eat? In this study, we look at this phenomenon to see if children may or may not use verbs that help them guess what a new word may be referring to. So, we will give them some familiar and made-up word labels along with verbs to help them figure out what picture may match.

15 minutes

As a token of appreciation, you will receive a $5 Amazon.com e-gift card within 2 weeks. You are eligible for this payment if your child meets all the eligibility criteria, is present in the Consent Video at the start of the study, and has not participated in the study before.