Cross-Cultural Exploration of Growth in Expressive Communication Between English and Portuguese-Speaking Infants and Toddlers
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Abstract
There is a need for instruments that can assess skills at an early age and that are valid on an international level to support large-scale multicultural research of child development. The Early Communication Indicator (ECI) was developed in the United States to measure expressive communication in the early years, supporting early intervention practitioners and other professionals. It is designed to be applied in any context and in any language, making it applicable internationally. A study involving 480 Portuguese infants and toddlers (aged 6–42 months) that used the ECI provided an opportunity to explore the development of expressive communication using the ECI in a language other than English and in a novel cultural context. The results confirmed a continuum of communication growth and showed similarities with the trajectories found in the U.S. and Australian populations, where the ECI is widely used, for example, to measure communication and monitor intervention in early childhood. Implications for future studies and contributions to theory and practice provided by these new cross-cultural data on ECI are discussed.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it