60 datasets found

This dataset consists of audio-recordings of naturalistic speech addressed to infants as well as their inventory of words when they were 9, 15 and 21 months of age. All infants...

Children from disadvantaged families tend to have limited language skills compared to their advantaged peers. While many factors contribute to language ability, two aspects of...

In a pre-registered cluster randomised controlled trial, 85 lower SES families and their 3- to 4-year old children from 10 different preschools were randomly allocated to take...

The aim of this research was to explore whether the advantages of shared book reading (the joint attention and high quality adult language input) remain true where children have...

Shared book reading has been demonstrated to be an effective way to promote children’s language including preparation for literacy: children who are read to regularly, on...

Data from a series of experimental studies conducted in 2017-2018 investigating how children with autism spectrum disorder and typical development learn words. Children...

The study is an eyetracking experiment run with 12- and 28-month old children and adults. Participants from each age group were randomly assigned to a label or no-label...

A reading and language intervention programme trialled in an isolated Chilean population. These data are derived from a randomised controlled trial study that evaluated the...

We piloted a version based on data from various Babylabs, selecting words for which comprehension significantly increased with age over this range, thus eliminating several...

The project aimed to a) determine the psycholinguistic profiles of children attending language units in England, b) investigate their social-emotional well-being and c) gather...

The Growth in Grammar Corpus is a collection of texts written by children at schools in England as part of their regular school work. Texts were mainly sampled from children in...

Many Western industrialized nations have high levels of ethnic diversity but to date there are very few studies which investigate prelinguistic and early language development in...

Eyetracking data collected from 10-month-old infants, stimuli and analysis scripts. In this study 10-month-old infants were trained over the course of a week with two 3D...

Eyetracking data collected from 10-month-old infants, stimuli. In the current study, parents read their infants a storybook containing multiple exemplars from two novel object...

A central question in language acquisition is how children master sentence types that they have seldom, if ever, heard. Here we report the findings of a preregistered,...

It has long been claimed that the child’s experience of language is not sufficient to enable them to learn language, and so language structure must be innate and internal to the...

The aim of this large-scale, preregistered, cross-linguistic study was to mediate between theories of the acquisition of inflectional morphology, which lie along a continuum...

Complex sentences involving adverbial clauses appear in children’s speech at about three years of age yet children have difficulty comprehending these sentences well into the...

Understanding complex sentences that contain multiple clauses referring to events in the world and the relations between them is an important development in children's language...

The aim of the present work was to develop a computational model of how children acquire inflectional morphology for marking person and number; one of the central challenges in...