{"pk":26415,"title":"Linguistic input is tuned to children’s developmental level","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Children rapidly learn a tremendous amount about languagedespite limitations imposed on them by their developing cog-nitive abilities. One possible explanation for this rapid learn-ing is that caregivers tune the language they produce tothese limitations, titrating the complexity of their speech todevelopmentally-appropriate levels. We test this hypothesis ina large-scale corpus analysis, measuring the contingency be-tween parents’ and children’s speech over the first 5 years.Our results support the linguistic tuning hypothesis, showinga high degree of mostly parent-led coordination early in de-velopment that decreases as children become more proficientlanguage learners and users.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Language Acquisition"},{"word":"Cognitive Development"},{"word":"computational modelingI"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0mn348d4","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yurovsky","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""},{"first_name":"Gabriel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Doyle","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Frank","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26415/galley/16051/download/"}]}