Purpose The Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system provides automated
measures facilitating clinical and nonclinical research and interventions on language …

In this article, I advocate for an enriched view of children's linguistic input, with the aim of
building sustainable and tangible links between theoretical models of language …

In the previous decade, dozens of studies involving thousands of children across several
research disciplines have made use of a combined daylong audio-recorder and automated …

Infants enculturate to their soundscape over the first year of life, yet theories of how they do
so rarely make contact with details about the sounds available in everyday life. Here, we …

Recordings captured by wearable microphones are a standard method for investigating
young children's language environments. A key measure to quantify from such data is the …

Recent years have seen rapid technological development of devices that can record
communicative behavior as participants go about daily life. This paper is intended as an end …

Studies of cross-cultural variation in children's early at-home linguistic experience has
previously lacked consistency in methodology across populations. Here young children's …

Purpose The language that children hear early in life is associated with their speech-
language outcomes. This line of research relies on naturalistic observations of children's …

Children must necessarily process their input in order to learn it, yet the architecture of the
develo** parsing system and how it interfaces with acquisition is unclear. In the current …

Recent issues around reproducibility, best practices, and cultural bias impact naturalistic
observational approaches as much as experimental approaches, but there has been less …