Author(s): Kalenkovich E; Koorathota S; Tor S; Amatuni A; Egan-Dailey S; Moore C; Laing C; Garrison H; Baudet G; Bulgarelli F; Uner S; Righter L; Bergelson E;

This paper describes a dataset consisting of manually annotated nouns from a corpus of longitudinal day-long audio and hour-long video recordings collected monthly from 44 babies from age 6 months to age 17 months. This dataset was created as part of a larger project, called SEEDLingS, that exami ...

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Author(s): Moore C; Donhauser PW; Klein D; Byers-Heinlein K;

The remarkable human capacity for bilingual and multilingual acquisition raises fundamental questions about how the brain develops efficient systems for processing multiple languages. In this study, we used neural network models trained on natural speech input to examine how these efficient representations emerge. Our models show that multiple phonologica ...

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Author(s): Moore C; Williams ME; Byers-Heinlein K;

Previous research suggests that monolingual children learn words more readily in contexts with referential continuity (i.e., repeated labeling of the same referent) than in contexts with referential discontinuity (i.e., referent switches). Here, we extended this work by testing monolingual and bilingual 3- and 4-year-olds' (N = 64) novel word learning ...

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Author(s): López Pérez M; Moore C; Sander-Montant A; Byers-Heinlein K;

Assessing early vocabulary development commonly involves parent report methods and behavioral tasks like looking-while-listening. While both yield reliable aggregate scores, findings are mixed regarding their reliability in measuring infants' knowledge of individual words. Using archival data from 126 monolingual and bilingual 14-31-month-olds, we fur ...

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