Mapping the Early Language Environment Using All-Day Recordings and Automated Analysis.

Journal: American journal of speech-language pathology
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Abstract

PURPOSE: This research provided a first-generation standardization of automated language environment estimates, validated these estimates against standard language assessments, and extended on previous research reporting language behavior differences across socioeconomic groups.

Authors

  • Jill Gilkerson
    LENA Research Foundation, Boulder, CO.
  • Jeffrey A Richards
    LENA Research Foundation, Boulder, CO.
  • Steven F Warren
    Life Span Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
  • Judith K Montgomery
    Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Chapman University, Orange, CA.
  • Charles R Greenwood
    Juniper Garden's Children's Project, University of Kansas, Kansas City.
  • D Kimbrough Oller
    School of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, TNKonrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg, Austria.
  • John H L Hansen
    CRSS: Center for Robust Speech Systems; Cochlear Implant Processing Laboratory (CILab), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, USA.
  • Terrance D Paul
    LENA Research Foundation, Boulder, CO.