Quantity and Diversity: Simulating Early Word Learning Environments
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Quantity and Diversity: Simulating Early Word Learning Environments.
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....
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0364-0213,1551-6709
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12592