!-- Fixed navbar -->
Social Cross-situational Word Learning
Stanford University

Stanford Language and Cognition Lab

In this experiment, you will meet a speaker named Tina, who will look at some objects and talk about them. Your task is to figure out which word goes with each object.


Please ensure that your volume is loud enough that you will be able to hear the words.





By answering the following questions, you are participating in a study being performed by cognitive scientists in the Stanford Department of Psychology. If you have questions about this research, please contact us at [email protected]. You must be at least 18 years old to participate. Your participation in this research is voluntary. You may decline to answer any or all of the following questions. You may decline further participation, at any time, without adverse consequences. Your anonymity is assured; the researchers who have requested your participation will not receive any personal information about you.

We have recently been made aware that your public Amazon.com profile can be accessed via your worker ID if you do not choose to opt out. If you would like to opt out of this feature, you may follow instructions available here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=16465241

First, you will see two examples in English to familiarize you with the task.

On each trial, you will see four pictures of common objects and hear Tina say an English word. Please click on the object that you think each word goes with.

Click the Continue button to begin.

You have finished the examples. You will now begin learning the new language.

On each trial, you will see four pictures of unfamiliar objects and hear Tina say a word in the new language. Please click on the object that you think each word goes with.

Click the Continue button to begin.
Click on the picture that the word goes with
(If you are not sure, take your best guess)

Progress:

You're finished - thanks for participating! Submitting to Mechanical Turk...

Please answer these questions to complete this HIT


What do you think this experiment is about?




Do you have any comments? Is anything broken?