In our research project MultiCUE (www.multicue.nl), we investigate how multilingual children make use of communicative cues such as gestures or body posture, and whether they differ in their use of such cues from monolingual children. We also conduct some projects with adults. In our project, we employ various research methodologies, including reaction-time studies, eyetracking (also with the help of eyetracking glasses) and we are currently in the earliest phases of setting up a VR experiment. The ultimate aim of our project is to see how multilingual children communicate in carefully controlled experiments as well as more natural interactions, and whether they rely on different communicative cues than monolingual peers, which might have implications for how they learn languages.

We have room for 1 or 2 students in our project. The tasks for these students would involve, amongst others:

• data collection (test administration to children and/or adults)
• coding and data preprocessing
• literature review
• attending weekly group meetings
• write parts of texts (when students like this)

Other tasks are also possible, depending on what comes up in the project and on the student’s interests.