The words in children's language learning environments are strongly predictive of cognitive development and school achievement. But how do we measure language environments and do so at the scale of the many words that children hear day in, day out? The quantity and quality of words in a child's input are typically measured in terms of total amount of talk and the lexical diversity in that talk. There are disagreements in the literature whether amount or diversity is the more critical measure of the input. Here we analyze the properties of a large corpus (6.5 million words) of speech to children and simulate learning environments that differ in amount of talk per unit time, lexical diversity, and the contexts of talk. The central conclusion ...
Lexical diversity is one of the language tools to measure varied words or vocabulary produced by lea...
Lexical diversity is one of the language tools to measure varied words or vocabulary produced by lea...
Immersion programs have long been considered the gold standard for school-based language revitalizat...
Children who hear large amounts of diverse speech learn language more quickly than children who do n...
Contains fulltext : 203142.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Children who he...
Children who hear large amounts of diverse speech learn language more quickly than children who do n...
Children who hear large amounts of diverse speech learn language more quickly than children who do n...
Humans have an innate capacity to learn language. This is an undisputed fact. However, what this cap...
Humans have an innate capacity to learn language. This is an undisputed fact. However, what this cap...
The 30-million-word gap, the quantified difference in the amount of speech that children growing up ...
We examine the success of developmental distributional analysis in English, German and Dutch. We emb...
Previous work has found competing evidence for how contextual diversity influences early word learni...
Previous work has found competing evidence for how contextual diversity influences early word learni...
Frequency exerts a powerful influence on lexical processing but it is possible that at least part of...
Lexical diversity is one of the language tools to measure varied words or vocabulary produced by lea...
Lexical diversity is one of the language tools to measure varied words or vocabulary produced by lea...
Lexical diversity is one of the language tools to measure varied words or vocabulary produced by lea...
Immersion programs have long been considered the gold standard for school-based language revitalizat...
Children who hear large amounts of diverse speech learn language more quickly than children who do n...
Contains fulltext : 203142.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Children who he...
Children who hear large amounts of diverse speech learn language more quickly than children who do n...
Children who hear large amounts of diverse speech learn language more quickly than children who do n...
Humans have an innate capacity to learn language. This is an undisputed fact. However, what this cap...
Humans have an innate capacity to learn language. This is an undisputed fact. However, what this cap...
The 30-million-word gap, the quantified difference in the amount of speech that children growing up ...
We examine the success of developmental distributional analysis in English, German and Dutch. We emb...
Previous work has found competing evidence for how contextual diversity influences early word learni...
Previous work has found competing evidence for how contextual diversity influences early word learni...
Frequency exerts a powerful influence on lexical processing but it is possible that at least part of...
Lexical diversity is one of the language tools to measure varied words or vocabulary produced by lea...
Lexical diversity is one of the language tools to measure varied words or vocabulary produced by lea...
Lexical diversity is one of the language tools to measure varied words or vocabulary produced by lea...
Immersion programs have long been considered the gold standard for school-based language revitalizat...