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SUBMITTER: Roy BC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4611597 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roy Brandon C BC Frank Michael C MC DeCamp Philip P Miller Matthew M Roy Deb D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150921 41
Children learn words through an accumulation of interactions grounded in context. Although many factors in the learning environment have been shown to contribute to word learning in individual studies, no empirical synthesis connects across factors. We introduce a new ultradense corpus of audio and video recordings of a single child's life that allows us to measure the child's experience of each word in his vocabulary. This corpus provides the first direct comparison, to our knowledge, between d ...[more]