May 19, 2022

Explaining patterns in children's speech acquisition data

This morning Dr Kate Crowe and I met with Prof Morten Christiansen, Steven Elmlinger and Pablo Andres Contreras Kallens from Cornell University https://psychology.cornell.edu/morten-h-christiansen 

We are going to collaborate on a project to use statistical learning to explore whether young children's linguistic experiences can explain patterns in children's speech acquisition data. The Cornell University team will re-analyse the data from the following papers. I'm looking forward to see the first set results because their pilot work using data contained within these papers is very promising.

  • McLeod, S., & Crowe, K. (2018). Children’s consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27(4), 1546–1571. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100 
  • Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. (2020). Children's English consonant acquisition in the United States: A review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29(4), 2155–2169. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00168