32.2042, Books: Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning: Frank, Braginsky, Yurovsky, Marchman

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 12:43:01
From: Kailey Tse-Harlow [kailey at mit.edu]
Subject: Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning:  Frank, Braginsky, Yurovsky, Marchman

 


Title: Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning 
Subtitle: The Wordbank Project 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/
	

Book URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/variability-and-consistency-early-language-learning 


Author: Michael C. Frank
Author: Mika Braginsky
Author: Daniel Yurovsky
Author: Virginia A. Marchman

Hardback: ISBN:  9780262045100 Pages: 384 Price: U.S. $ 75


Abstract:

This book examines variability and consistency in children's language learning
across different languages and cultures, drawing on Wordbank, an open database
with data from more than 75,000 children and twenty-nine languages or
dialects. This big data approach makes the book the most comprehensive
cross-linguistic analysis to date of early language learning. Moreover, its
data-driven picture of which aspects of language learning are consistent
across languages suggests constraints on the nature of children's language
learning mechanisms. The book provides both a theoretical framework for
scholars of language learning, language, and human cognition, and a resource
for future research.

Wordbank archives data from parents' reports about their children's language
learning using instruments in the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development
Inventory (CDI); its goal is to make CDI data available for study and
analysis. After an overview of practical and theoretical issues, each of the
book's empirical chapters applies a particular analysis to the Wordbank
dataset, considering such topics as vocabulary size, demographic variation,
syntactic and semantic categories, and the relationship between vocabulary
growth and grammar. The final three chapters draw on the preceding chapters to
quantify variability and consistency, consider the bird's eye view of language
acquisition afforded by the data, and reflect on methodology.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition


Written In: English  (eng)

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