{"product_id":"variability-and-consistency-in-early-language-learning-isbn-9780262045100","title":"Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning","description":"\u003cb\u003eA data-driven exploration of how children's language learning varies across different languages, providing both a theoretical framework and reference.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wordbank Project \u003c\/i\u003eexamines variability and consistency in children's language learning across different languages and cultures, drawing on Wordbank, an open database with data from more than 75,000 children and twenty-nine languages or dialects. This big data approach makes the book the most comprehensive cross-linguistic analysis to date of early language learning. Moreover, its data-driven picture of which aspects of language learning are consistent across languages suggests constraints on the nature of children's language learning mechanisms. The book provides both a theoretical framework for scholars of language learning, language, and human cognition, and a resource for future research.Preface ix \u003cbr\u003eOverview ix \u003cbr\u003eOutline xi \u003cbr\u003eHow to Read This Book xiii \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xiv \u003cbr\u003e1 Theoretical Foundations 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Practical Foundations 15\u003cbr\u003e3 Methods and Data 27\u003cbr\u003e4 Measurement Properties of the CDI 45\u003cbr\u003e5 Vocabulary Size 65\u003cbr\u003e6 Demographic Effects on Vocabulary Size 85\u003cbr\u003e7 Gesture and Communication 111\u003cbr\u003e8 Consistency in Early Vocabulary 125\u003cbr\u003e9 Demographic Variation in Individual Words 139\u003cbr\u003e10 Predictive Models of the Acquisition of Individual Words 165\u003cbr\u003e11 Vocabulary Composition: Syntactic Categories 181\u003cbr\u003e12 Vocabulary Composition: Semantic Categories 203\u003cbr\u003e13 Morphology, Grammar, and the Lexicon 221\u003cbr\u003e14 Morphological Overgeneralization 243\u003cbr\u003e15 Individual Variation in Vocabulary 255\u003cbr\u003e16 Variability and Consistency within and across Languages 283\u003cbr\u003e17 Language Development at Scale 289\u003cbr\u003e18 Beyond the CDI 303\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A Individual Datasets 311 \u003cbr\u003eAppendix B Measures of Variability 325 \u003cbr\u003eAppendix C Stitching across Forms 329 \u003cbr\u003eAppendix D Estimating Age of Acquisition 333 \u003cbr\u003eReferences 337 \u003cbr\u003eIndex 357“\u003ci\u003eVariability and Consistency in Early Language Learning\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force. The scope of the topics covered through through the lens of parental report measures of early language development is remarkable. The authors have a total command of the extant literature, which motivates detailed and thoughtful exploration of this rich dataset. This marriage of theory and data makes me very excited to use this volume as the basis for future graduate seminars.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jenny Saffran, Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The era of big data in the study of language acquisition has officially begun! Frank and colleagues have used enormous amounts of data from the CDI to answer a number of theoretically interesting and important questions about children's early language, mostly using a web-based database and automated procedures. For the study of word learning, in particular, this book will be the necessary anchoring point for almost all future work.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael Tomasello, James F. Bonk Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Duke University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Based on data from 29 languages and thousands of children, this impressive and systematic analysis shows in detail how early language development involves a ‘tightly woven’  developmental progression, along with room for variation that is predictable from input frequency, child gender, mother education, and unique features of the target language.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University\u003c\/b\u003eMichael C. Frank is David and Lucile Packard Professor of Human Biology and the Director of the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford University. Virginia Marchman is Research Scientist at Stanford University. Daniel Yurovsky is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. Mika Braginsky is a PhD candidate in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304695845093,"sku":"NP9780262045100","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262045100.jpg?v=1767743382","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/variability-and-consistency-in-early-language-learning-isbn-9780262045100","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}