Efficient Estimation of Children's Language Exposure in Two Bilingual Communities.

ABSTRACT: Purpose The language that children hear early in life is associated with their speech-language outcomes. This line of research relies on naturalistic observations of children's language input, often captured with daylong audio recordings. However, the large quantity of data that daylong recordings generate requires novel analytical tools to feasibly parse thousands of hours of naturalistic speech. This study outlines a new approach to efficiently process and sample from daylong audio recordings made in two bilingual communities, Spanish-English in the United States and Quechua-Spanish in Bolivia, to derive estimates of children's language exposure. Method We employed a general sampling with replacement technique to efficiently estimate two key elements of children's early language environm

SUBMITTER: Cychosz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9132038 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature