ALICE: An open-source tool for automatic measurement of phoneme, syllable, and word counts from child-centered daylong recordings.

ABSTRACT: Recordings captured by wearable microphones are a standard method for investigating young children's language environments. A key measure to quantify from such data is the amount of speech present in children's home environments. To this end, the LENA recorder and software-a popular system for measuring linguistic input-estimates the number of adult words that children may hear over the course of a recording. However, word count estimation is challenging to do in a language- independent manner; the relationship between observable acoustic patterns and language-specific lexical entities is far from uniform across human languages. In this paper, we ask whether some alternative linguistic units, namely phone(me)s or syllables, could be measured instead of, or in parallel with, words in order

SUBMITTER: Rasanen O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8062390 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature