The
questionnaire
The questionnaire that
needs to be filled in by the parent or guardian will provide us with general information about the children’s background and their language use.
The experiments
All our experiments
are designed as games for children between the age of 4 and 7.
If your child
participates, s/he will take part in two different sessions that take place on
two different days. In the
first session the researcher will take some basic measures of language
comprehension and production and two games will be played that measure cognitive
and linguistic abilities. In the second session the child will take part in
three more games, also measuring cognitive and linguistic abilities. On both
days the linguistic tasks will be audio-recorded to allow the researcher to
provide an accurate transcription of your child’s language production. Each
session will have an approximate time duration of 1 hour. Children will be
allowed to take breaks to minimise fatigue and maximise focus on the tasks at
hand.