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Sandhofer, Catherine M.; Smith, Linda B.; Luo, Jun – Journal of Child Language, 2000
Offers additional means of evaluating parent speech by examining frequencies of individual nouns, verbs, and descriptors, and examining the learning task presented to children. Study one examines transcripts from the CHILDES database of English-speaking parents' speech to children at five developmental levels; study two examines 50 transcripts of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Contrastive Linguistics, Databases, Developmental Stages