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    "pk": 28694,
    "title": "Parents’ Linguistic Alignment Predicts Children’s Language Development",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Children quickly gain enormous linguistic knowledge duringearly development, in part due to low-level features of theirparents’ speech. Some posit that parents contribute to theirchild’s language development by tuning their own languageaccording to their child’s developmental abilities and needs(Bruner, 1985; Snow, 1972). Here, we investigate this hypoth-esis by examining ‘alignment’ at the level of syntax and func-tion words in a large-scale corpus of parent-child conversationsand measuring its association with language development out-comes. To do so, we employ a statistical model of alignment toestimate its presence in our dataset and its predictive impact ona measure of vocabulary development. Our results corroborateprevious findings, showing strong alignment for both parentsand children; in addition, we demonstrate that parental align-ment is a significant predictor of language maturity indepen-dent of demographic features, suggesting that parental tuninghas strong ties to a child’s language development.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Language acquisition; statistical modeling; vocab-ulary development"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Joseph",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Denby",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Chicago",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Yurovsky",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Chicago",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T13:00:00-05:00",
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