What Does The Child Say? An Analysis Of Noun an Verb Usage Between Child and Parent
dc.contributor.advisor | Kachergis, G.E. | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Carstensen, A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Peters, L. | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-06-18 | |
dc.description.abstract | Early language learning is one of many critical and complex skills children learn to develop during their young age (Kuhl, 2012). A distinctive fea- ture of early language learning is the lexical explosion known as the noun bias. However, opinions about whether the noun bias is truly a bias and if it is universal across languages di erentiates among researchers. Alternatively, children could pattern-match relative frequency of nouns, but also verbs from their received child-directed speech (CDS), without any bias that goes be- yond their input. This paper, leverages CDS in CHILDES to determine whether relative noun and verb similarity existed between a child's produced speech and their parents' CDS on basis of noun-to-verb ratios and word type distributions. A comparison of parent and child word distributions exhibited signi cant di erences in 24 out of 45 age bins for noun usage and 4 out of 41 age bins for verb usage, where each age bin contained conversation data of children at a speci c 3-month age interval. Found results indicated that, especially at early and later ages, English-speaking children more often dif- ferentiate in noun usage than in their verb usage. Furthermore, noun-to-verb ratios of CDS and its corresponding child speech became progressively more correlated during the course of the child's early to mid-early age (between 19 and 64 months). | en_US |
dc.embargo.lift | 10000-01-01 | |
dc.embargo.type | Permanent embargo | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/7050 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.thesis.faculty | Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen | en_US |
dc.thesis.specialisation | Bachelor Artificial Intelligence | en_US |
dc.thesis.studyprogramme | Artificial Intelligence | en_US |
dc.thesis.type | Bachelor | en_US |
dc.title | What Does The Child Say? An Analysis Of Noun an Verb Usage Between Child and Parent | en_US |
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