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This corpus was collected in the Language Sciences Research Lab, a working lab embedded inside of a science museum: the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Participants were recruited from the floor of the museum and run in a semi-public space. Three distinctive features of the corpus are: (1) an interactive social robot (specifically, a Jibo robot) was present and participated in the sessions for roughly half the children; (2) all children were recorded with a lapel mic generating high quality audio (available through CHILDES), as well as a distal table mic generating low quality audio (available on request) to facilitate strong tests of automated speech processing on the data; and (3) the data were collected in the peri-pandemic period, beginning in the summer of 2021 just after COVID-19 restrictions were being eased and ending in the summer of 2022 – thus providing a snapshot of language development in a distinctive time of the world. A YouTube video on the Jibo robot is available here .
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Relative importance of early literacy and executive function skills on Spanish–English emergent bilinguals’ English reading achievement across primary years.
- Award ID(s):
- 1749275
- PAR ID:
- 10625437
- Publisher / Repository:
- American Psychological Association
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Educational Psychology
- Volume:
- 117
- Issue:
- 5
- ISSN:
- 0022-0663
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 701 to 716
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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