Jessica L. Montag

Theoretical and Methodological Insights From Five Transcribed and Annotated Daylong Audio Recordings of Young Children’s Language Environments

As we come to appreciate the role that the language environment plays in language learning, there is an increased interest in measuring children’s auditory input. Recording methods that capture a full day’s worth of a child’s auditory environment are increasingly available to res...

Investigating the temporal distribution of words in child-centered audio using the burstiness metric

As the use of naturalistic data of children's language experiences increases, the temporal dynamics of the environment becomes a more apparent feature of naturalistic language. By investigating the temporal dynamics of the language environment, we can both more accurately describ...