Preregistration for Child-directed emotion talk among Singaporean parents

Preregistration documents. This study will investigate parental use of mental state descriptions in Singaporean parents' speech to preschoolers - with a focus on describing emotions. Past studies on child directed descriptions of emotions have been mostly conducted in Western populations where Standard English is the norm. This study will investigate parental use of mental state descriptions in the highly multilingual context of Singapore, for parents narrating a wordless picture book 'What a Scary Storm' (Styles, 2020). The book was designed to elicit descriptions of emotions such as 'scared' and 'surprised'. This preregistration describes planned descriptive and hypothesis-testing analyses. V1.2 unrestricts the previously embargoed documents. V1.3 removes embargo from the terms of access