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Everyday Language Input and Production in 1,001 Children from Six Continents by Elika Bergelson; Melanie Soderstrom; Iris-Corinna Schwarz; Caroline F. Rowland; Nairán Ramírez-Esparza; Lisa R. Hamrick; Ellen Marklund; Marina Kalashnikova; Ava Guez; Marisa Casillas; Lucia Benetti; Petra van Alphen; Alejandrina Cristia is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Everyday Language Input and Production in 1,001 Children from Six Continents about?
Language is a universal human ability, acquired readily by young children, who otherwise struggle with many basics of survival. And yet, language ability is variable across individuals. Naturalistic and experimental observations suggest that children’s linguistic skills vary with factors like socioeconomic status and children’s gender. But which factors really influence children’s day-to-day language use? Here, we leverage speech technology in a big-data approach to report on a unique cross-cultural and diverse data set: >2,500 d-long, child-centered audio-recordings of 1,001 2- to 48-mo-olds from 12 countries spanning six continents across urban, farmer-forager, and subsistence-farming contexts. As expected, age and language-relevant clinical risks and diagnoses predicted how much speech (and speech-like vocalization) children produced. Critically, so too did adult talk in children’s environments: Children who heard more talk from adults produced more speech. In contrast to previous conclusions based on more limited sampling methods and a different set of language proxies, socioeconomic status (operationalized as maternal education) was not significantly associated with children’s
Who reads Everyday Language Input and Production in 1,001 Children from Six Continents?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.
- Author
- Elika Bergelson; Melanie Soderstrom; Iris-Corinna Schwarz; Caroline F. Rowland; Nairán Ramírez-Esparza; Lisa R. Hamrick; Ellen Marklund; Marina Kalashnikova; Ava Guez; Marisa Casillas; Lucia Benetti; Petra van Alphen; Alejandrina Cristia
- Publisher
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)