Re:Wordbank: An open database of children's vocabulary devel...
by mcfrank on Friday February 24, 2017 @09:49PM
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Very cool!
All our code is at http://github.com/langcog/wordbank and you can access the database directly using the wordbankr R package (on cran).
A paper doing something similar to what you describe is in prep, with a conference version here:
http://langcog.stanford.edu/papers_new/braginsky-2016-underr...
Re:Wordbank: An open database of children's vocabulary devel...
by mikabr on Friday February 24, 2017 @07:38PM
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we have an R package which you can use to access the data:
https://github.com/langcog/wordbankr
we've done some analyses predicting words' learnability from frequency and other factors: http://langcog.stanford.edu/papers_new/braginsky-2016-underr...
I don't need the R code, but this sounds like it would make good companion data to my own wordfreq [1]. It would be interesting to see which words are learned early but relatively uncommon in corpora, and generally to be able to measure differences in register between child and adult language.
[1] https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/wordfreq