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How many words do infants know, really ?

Published inMayor, J., Ruh, N. & Plunkett, K. (Ed.), Connectionist Models Of Behaviour And Cognition II, p. 325-336
PublisherSingapore : World Scientific Publ.
Collection
  • Progress in Neural Processing; 18
Publication date2009
Abstract

For the last twenty years, many researchers interested in language acquisition have quantified the receptive and productive vocabulary of infants using CDIs – checklists of words filled in by the caregiver. While it is generally accepted that the caregiver can reliably say whether the infant knows and/or produces a given word, we lack an estimate for words that are not listed on CDI. In this study, we provide a mathematical model providing a link between CDI reports and a more plausible estimate of vocabulary size. The model is constrained by statistical data collected from a population of infants and is validated on a longitudinal study comparing diary report with CDI measures.

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MAYOR, Julien, PLUNKETT, Kim. How many words do infants know, really ? In: Connectionist Models Of Behaviour And Cognition II. Mayor, J., Ruh, N. & Plunkett, K. (Ed.). Singapore : World Scientific Publ., 2009. p. 325–336. (Progress in Neural Processing)
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  • PID : unige:22702
ISBN978-981-283-422-5
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