Psychologists at the Kent Child Development Unit, based at Keynes College at the University of Kent at Canterbury, will study how children from 18 months to six years old learn their first language.
Research will also focus on social interaction and how children learn to understand their world.
Equipment for experiments includes an eye tracker that follows where the child is looking at a screen, so researchers can measure what they understand about certain words and sentences.
In one test children are shown two simultaneous video clips - for example a boy feeding a girl and a girl feeding a boy - and then hear sentences describing the action.
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