In the MultiCUE project (www.multicue.nl) we investigate differences between multilingual and monolingual children in their understanding of non-verbal cues, such as speakers’ gestures and eye gaze. In this project, you will investigate whether there are differences between multilingual and monolingual toddlers (ages 2 ½ to 3 years) regarding which part of a speaker’s face they attend to most (the speaker’s eyes or mouth) and how this relates to their receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge. You will also investigate whether toddlers at this age can form speaker-language mappings, that is, can they remember which speaker spoke what language?

Within this project, your activities could include:

• Testing 2 ½ – 3 year old children in Dutch
• Contacting parents to schedule appointments
• Coding the types of errors children make on productive vocabulary tasks
• Attending weekly project meetings
• Finding and summarizing literature
• Analyzing and visualizing data in R

For this project, speaking proficiency in Dutch (B2 or higher) is required.

If you’re interested in this project you can contact Elise van Wonderen (e.vanwonderen@uva.nl).