Exploring Patterns of Stability and Change in Caregivers' Word Usage across Early Childhood

Autor/inn/en	Jiang, Hang; Frank, Michael C.; Kulkarni, Vivek; Fourtassi, Abdellah
Titel	Exploring Patterns of Stability and Change in Caregivers' Word Usage across Early Childhood
Quelle	In: Cognitive Science, 46 (2022) 7, (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0364-0213
DOI	10.1111/cogs.13177
Schlagwörter	Caregivers; Caregiver Child Relationship; Linguistic Input; Semantics; Speech Communication; Natural Language Processing; Language Usage; Child Language; Language Acquisition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Sprachbildung; Semantik; Natürliche Sprache; Sprachgebrauch; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb
Abstract	The linguistic input children receive across early childhood plays a crucial role in shaping their knowledge about the world. To study this input, researchers have begun applying distributional semantic models to large corpora of child-directed speech, extracting various patterns of word use/co-occurrence. Previous work using these models has not measured how these patterns may change throughout development, however. In this work, we leverage natural language processing methods--originally developed to study historical language change--to compare caregivers' use of words when talking to younger versus older children. Some words' usage changed more than others; this variability could be predicted based on the word's properties at both the individual and category levels. These findings suggest that caregivers' changing patterns of word use may play a role in scaffolding children's acquisition of conceptual structure in early development. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01