The Children's Picture Books Lexicon (CPB-Lex): A large-scale lexical database from children's picture books

C Green, K Keogh, H Sun, B O'Brien - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
This article presents cpb-lex, a large-scale database of lexical statistics derived from
children's picture books (age range 0–8 years). Such a database is essential for research in …

Open Brain AI and language assessment

C Themistocleous - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Neurolinguistic assessments play a vital role in neurological examinations, revealing a wide
range of language and communication impairments associated with developmental …

Personal narratives of school-age children: A cross-sectional developmental study

J Kuvač Kraljević, A Matić Škorić… - Folia phoniatrica et …, 2023 - karger.com
Introduction: Personal narratives are monological stories based on a personal experience
that help children explain and understand their emotional states, as well as process positive …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting language outcomes at 3 years using individual differences in morphological segmentation in infancy

J Jo, M Sundara, C Breiss - Infant Behavior and Development, 2024 - Elsevier
In previous research, infants' performance on speech perception tasks has been shown to
predict later language outcomes, typically vocabulary size. We used Bayesian analyses to …

Deciphering language disturbances in schizophrenia: A study using fine-tuned language models

R Li, M Cao, D Fu, W Wei, D Wang, Z Yuan, R Hu… - Schizophrenia …, 2024 - Elsevier
This research presents two stable language metrics, namely Successful Prediction Rate
(SPR) and Disfluency (DF), to objectively quantify the linguistic disturbances associated with …

Assessment and therapy goal planning using free computerized language analysis software

NB Ratner, B MacWhinney - Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groups, 2023 - ASHA
Background: We discuss a free software system (Computerized Language Analysis [CLAN])
that can enable fast, thorough, and informative language sample analysis (LSA). Method …

Atypical language development

NB Ratner - The development of language, 1993 - books.google.com
Such evidence of depressed language capacity in WS children weakens the argument for a
dissociation between cognition and language, or modularity of the language faculty (see …

A computer-assisted tool for automatically measuring non-native Japanese oral proficiency

W Li, Z Zhong, H Liu - Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study presents the development of an automated tool for assessing the speech of non-
native Japanese speakers. The tool integrated an accent-trained automatic speech …

Teacher alchemy? The potential for combining digital and social methodologies in supporting learners in the humanities and social sciences

S Leaton Gray, M Cukurova - Cogent Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Debates surrounding the use of data science in educational AI are frequently rather
entrenched, revolving around commercial models and talk of teacher replacement. This …

Should We Stop Using Lexical Diversity Measures in Children's Language Sample Analysis?

NB Ratner, Y Han, JS Yang - American Journal of Speech-Language …, 2024 - ASHA
Purpose: Prior work has identified weaknesses in commonly used indices of lexical diversity
in spoken language samples, such as type–token ratio (TTR) due to sample size and …