I-Spy in the Basket!

For 4- and 5-year-old (younger than 6-year-old) English-speaking children

This study will take place on a video call, live with a researcher! Clicking on the “Schedule a time to participate” button will send you to an online calendar where you can select a date and time that works for you. In the study, your child will interact with a live researcher and two friendly animal characters, Mr. Cat and Miss Bunny, on screen. Your child will see some images. Then Miss Bunny will describe one of them, and Mr. Cat will ask your child to evaluate whether Miss Bunny said it right.

In this study, we’re interested in what young children know about the meanings of plural words like cats or pears—words that tell us something about how many of something there are. By exploring how children interpret plural words in different situations, we hope to better understand how they integrate grammatical knowledge with conversational reasoning to acquire language.

15 minutes

$10 Amazon.com gift card. We will email you an Amazon gift card within 1 week of the study. To be eligible for compensation, the following criteria must be met: (1) Your child must be in the age range for this study and must not have previously done this study; (2) You must have provided informed consent; and (3) your child must be visible during the video. You may only participate in the study once.