HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings

VanDam, Mark; Warlaumont, Anne S.; Bergelson, Elika; Cristià, Alejandrina; Söderström, Mélanie; Palma, Paul De; MacWhinney, Brian

doi:10.1055/s-0036-1580745

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“…The dataset consists of 104 recordings transcribed from the Winnipeg Corpus (Soderstrom, Grauer, Dufault, & McDivitt, 2018; Soderstrom & Wittebolle, 2013; some of the recordings are archived on homebank.talkbank.org—VanDam et al, 2016), gathered from 35 children (19 boys), aged between 13 and 38 months, recorded using the LENA system 1 at home (14 children), at home daycare (6), or at daycare center (13), with one more child recorded both at home and home daycare. Soderstrom et al (2018) report that, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., there were 1–4 adults in home recordings (median of 5-min units 1), 1–3 in home daycares (median 1), and 1–5 + in daycare centers (median 2).…”

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Segmentability Differences Between Child-Directed and Adult-Directed Speech: A Systematic Test With an Ecologically Valid Corpus

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Previous computational modeling suggests it is much easier to segment words from child-directed speech (CDS) than adult-directed speech (ADS). However, this conclusion is based on data collected in the laboratory, with CDS from play sessions and ADS between a parent and an experimenter, which may not be representative of ecologically collected CDS and ADS. Fully naturalistic ADS and CDS collected with a nonintrusive recording device as the child went about her day were analyzed with a diverse set of algorithms. The difference between registers was small compared to differences between algorithms; it reduced when corpora were matched, and it even reversed under some conditions. These results highlight the interest of studying learnability using naturalistic corpora and diverse algorithmic definitions.

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Segmentability Differences Between Child-Directed and Adult-Directed Speech: A Systematic Test With an Ecologically Valid Corpus

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“…Although both the recent Infancy registered reports submission route and efforts for sharing observational data are notable exceptions; cf Adolph, Gilmore, Freeman, Sanderson, & Millman, 2012;Frank et al, 2016;MacWhinney, 2000;Rose & MacWhinney, 2014;VanDam et al, 2016)…”

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A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory‐Building

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The ideal of scientific progress is that we accumulate measurements and integrate these into theory, but recent discussion of replicability issues has cast doubt on whether psychological research conforms to this model. Developmental research—especially with infant participants—also has discipline‐specific replicability challenges, including small samples and limited measurement methods. Inspired by collaborative replication efforts in cognitive and social psychology, we describe a proposal for assessing and promoting replicability in infancy research: large‐scale, multi‐laboratory replication efforts aiming for a more precise understanding of key developmental phenomena. The ManyBabies project, our instantiation of this proposal, will not only help us estimate how robust and replicable these phenomena are, but also gain new theoretical insights into how they vary across ages, linguistic communities, and measurement methods. This project has the potential for a variety of positive outcomes, including less‐biased estimates of theoretically important effects, estimates of variability that can be used for later study planning, and a series of best‐practices blueprints for future infancy research.

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“…This work is descriptive of the extant literature on the topic. As more empirical work becomes available and more data becomes available through initiatives such as HomeBank () [56], opportunities for meta-analyses and larger-scale studies will become available. This will allow for more generalized cross-group comparisons with the potential to sort out differences among and within groups and sub-groups.…”

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Use of the LENA Autism Screen with Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

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Yoshinaga-Itano

2019

Medicina

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Background and Objectives: This systematic review reports the evidence from the literature concerning the potential for using an automated vocal analysis, the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA, LENA Research Foundation, Boulder, CO, USA) in the screening process for children at risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH). ASD and D/HH have increased comorbidity, but current behavioral diagnostic and screening tools have limitations. The LENA Language Autism Screen (LLAS) may offer an additional tool to disambiguate ASD from D/HH in young children. Materials and Methods: We examine empirical reports that use automatic vocal analysis methods to differentiate disordered from typically developing children. Results: Consensus across the sampled scientific literature shows support for use of automatic methods for screening and disambiguation of children with ASD and D/HH. There is some evidence of vocal differentiation between ASD, D/HH, and typically-developing children warranting use of the LLAS, but additional empirical evidence is needed to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the tool. Conclusions: The findings reported here warrant further, more substantive, methodologically-sound research that is fully powered to show a reliable difference. Findings may be useful for both clinicians and researchers in better identification and understanding of communication disorders.

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HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings

Cited by 114 publications

References 51 publications

Segmentability Differences Between Child-Directed and Adult-Directed Speech: A Systematic Test With an Ecologically Valid Corpus

Segmentability Differences Between Child-Directed and Adult-Directed Speech: A Systematic Test With an Ecologically Valid Corpus

A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory‐Building

Use of the LENA Autism Screen with Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

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