{"id":3523,"date":"2026-10-13T13:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2026-10-13T13:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:13:24","slug":"at-what-age-do-children-begin-predicting-the-content-of-a-question-as-they-hear-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/at-what-age-do-children-begin-predicting-the-content-of-a-question-as-they-hear-it\/","title":{"rendered":"At what age do children begin predicting the content of a question as they hear it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>In this study, we are interested in how children learn to process questions. Many studies have shown that when adults start to hear a question, they make predictions about what the rest of the question will be. This study investigates what age children show the same behavior by tracking where children look while they hear a question. This study is an eye-tracking study, meaning we place a small sticker on the child\u2019s forehead that allows our eye tracker to track exactly where the child is looking. Children will watch short videos containing three objects (for example, a bottle, spoon, and brush). After watching the video, the three objects will appear on screen while the child hears a question about the video. The eye tracker will track which of the objects the child looks at over the course of the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this study, we are interested in how children learn to process questions. Many studies have shown that when adults start to hear a question, they make predictions about what the rest of the question will be. This study investigates what age children show the same behavior by tracking where children look while they hear &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/at-what-age-do-children-begin-predicting-the-content-of-a-question-as-they-hear-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At what age do children begin predicting the content of a question as they hear it?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,66],"class_list":["post-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-25-months","tag-30-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3525,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/3525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}