Project Overview
- Status: Piloting begun in one language; Stage I Registered Report submitted; Preparing for open call for participation
In this multi-language project, we aim to investigate children’s recognition of familiar words across various ages and languages, using an online adaptation of the Looking-While-Listening paradigm (Fernald et al., 2008; also known as Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm - IPLP: Golinkoff et al., 1987; 2013). As the project name suggests, our goal is to implement this paradigm using a remote method, E-Babylab (Lo et al., 2024), designed to test children from their home. With this project, we aim to replicate previous robust findings of the age effect on word recognition, across multiple languages, and to provide greater clarity to the relationship between children’s eye-tracking measures and parental reports of children's word knowledge. Our approach will help build a more inclusive model of studying infant word recognition, and to develop more resource-friendly adaptations for cross-linguistic research.
Links
- MBAH1-LWL Collaboration Agreement
- Materials protocols and documentation: MBAH1-LWL OSF protocol pages
- Listserv: subscribe (click on “for access, try joining here”)
- Slack: join #mbah1-lwl-general channel in the MB workspace
Project Leads
- Rajalakshmi Madhavan, Chosun University, South Korea [email]
- Katie Von Holzen, TU Braunschweig, Germany [email]
- Eon-Suk Ko, Chosun University, South Korea [email]
Contributors
We encourage everyone who is interested in the project to subscribe to the listserv (see above) and/or contact the Project Leads (mbah1@manybabies.org). To add your name to the list of contributors, fill out the MB Dashboard form. Please note that access to infants/an infant lab is NOT a prerequisite.
Contributor list coming soon!