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How many words do infants know, really ?

Contributors

Mayor, Julien; Plunkett, Kim

Published in

Mayor, J., Ruh, N. & Plunkett, K. (Ed.), Connectionist Models Of Behaviour And Cognition II, p. 325-336

Publisher

Singapore : World Scientific Publ.

Collection

  • Progress in Neural Processing; 18

Publication date

2009

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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Citation (ISO format)

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) doi: 10.1142/9789812834232_0027

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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/6995#t=aboutBook

ISBN

978-981-283-422-5
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