childes-db: A flexible and reproducible interface to the child language data exchange system
Abstract The Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) has played a critical role in research on child language development, particularly in characterizing the early language learning environment. Access to these data can be both complex for novices and difficult to automate for a...
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| author | Sanchez, Alessandro Meylan, Stephan C Braginsky, Mika MacDonald, Kyle E Yurovsky, Daniel Frank, Michael C |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Sanchez, Alessandro Meylan, Stephan C Braginsky, Mika MacDonald, Kyle E Yurovsky, Daniel Frank, Michael C |
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The Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) has played a critical role in research on child language development, particularly in characterizing the early language learning environment. Access to these data can be both complex for novices and difficult to automate for advanced users, however. To address these issues, we introduce childes-db, a database-formatted mirror of CHILDES that improves data accessibility and usability by offering novel interfaces, including browsable web applications and an R application programming interface (API). Along with versioned infrastructure that facilitates reproducibility of past analyses, these interfaces lower barriers to analyzing naturalistic parent–child language, allowing for a wider range of researchers in language and cognitive development to easily leverage CHILDES in their work. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1319222023-01-20T20:43:19Z childes-db: A flexible and reproducible interface to the child language data exchange system Sanchez, Alessandro Meylan, Stephan C Braginsky, Mika MacDonald, Kyle E Yurovsky, Daniel Frank, Michael C Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Abstract The Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) has played a critical role in research on child language development, particularly in characterizing the early language learning environment. Access to these data can be both complex for novices and difficult to automate for advanced users, however. To address these issues, we introduce childes-db, a database-formatted mirror of CHILDES that improves data accessibility and usability by offering novel interfaces, including browsable web applications and an R application programming interface (API). Along with versioned infrastructure that facilitates reproducibility of past analyses, these interfaces lower barriers to analyzing naturalistic parent–child language, allowing for a wider range of researchers in language and cognitive development to easily leverage CHILDES in their work. 2021-09-20T17:30:57Z 2021-09-20T17:30:57Z 2019-01-08 2020-09-24T21:47:53Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131922 en https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1176-7 Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The Psychonomic Society, Inc. application/pdf Springer US Springer US |
| spellingShingle | Sanchez, Alessandro Meylan, Stephan C Braginsky, Mika MacDonald, Kyle E Yurovsky, Daniel Frank, Michael C childes-db: A flexible and reproducible interface to the child language data exchange system |
| title | childes-db: A flexible and reproducible interface to the child language data exchange system |
| title_full | childes-db: A flexible and reproducible interface to the child language data exchange system |
| title_fullStr | childes-db: A flexible and reproducible interface to the child language data exchange system |
| title_full_unstemmed | childes-db: A flexible and reproducible interface to the child language data exchange system |
| title_short | childes-db: A flexible and reproducible interface to the child language data exchange system |
| title_sort | childes db a flexible and reproducible interface to the child language data exchange system |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131922 |
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