The Hechinger Report – Jill Barshay
“Now scholars are dissecting early childhood speech even more and analyzing the content of these back-and-forth conversations. Thanks to advances in wearable audio recorders and natural language processing technology, it’s become more practical to “listen” to hours of speech inside homes. One pair of researchers, Kathleen Corriveau of Boston University and her former graduate student Katelyn Kurkul, now at Merrimack College, have produced a series of studies that delve into how some parents are answering their children’s questions and how those answers might make a difference in how we learn. The studies are small and haven’t been replicated but their work is an interesting glimpse into this new direction of early childhood research.” (more)