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LENA versus LEQ: Measuring bilingual infants’ language exposure

2016· article· en· W2473825110 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Zeinab Kahin

Bibliographic record

VenueuO Research (University of Ottawa) · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicLanguage Development and Disorders
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of Ottawa
KeywordsLinguisticsPsychologyPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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Determining the linguistic background of participants is a very important step in language research.Developed by Bosch & Sebastin-Galls (2001), the Language Exposure Questionnaire (LEQ) determines the percentage of input a child is exposed to per language.This interview-style questionnaire indirectly measures the language exposure of infants through parental estimates and is frequently used in bilingualism research (Byers-Heinlein, 2015).However, these parental reports can be biased and can inaccurately depict language use in bilingual households.New technology now allows for a more direct measure of a child's language environment.The Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system is a digital language processor that records and analyzes the child's audio environment.The LENA system has been used in research to measure the speech style of input but has yet to be used as a measure of language exposure (Weisleder & Fernald, 2013; Ramrez-Esparza et al., 2014).This study aims to compare the estimated percentages of exposure obtained using the LEQ and using the LENA system.The estimates are hypothesized to differ and such a result may lead us to question the validity of using indirect measures to evaluate language exposure.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.397
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.093
GPT teacher head0.348
Teacher spread0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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