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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2023

Measuring Language Development From Child-centered Recordings

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Standard ways to measure child language development from spontaneous corpora rely on detailed linguistic descriptions of a language as well as exhaustive transcriptions of the child's speech, which today can only be done through costly human labor. We tackle both issues by proposing (1) a new language development metric (based on entropy) that does not require linguistic knowledge other than having a corpus of text in the language in question to train a language model, (2) a method to derive this metric directly from speech based on a smaller text-speech parallel corpus. Here, we present descriptive results on an open archive including data from six Englishlearning children as a proof of concept. We document that our entropy metric documents a gradual convergence of children's speech towards adults' speech as a function of age, and it also correlates moderately with lexical and morphosyntactic measures derived from morphologically-parsed transcriptions. The source code of the experiments is released at https:// github.com/yaya-sy/EntropyBasedCLDMetrics

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Linguistique
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halshs-04294822 , version 1 (20-11-2023)

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Yaya Sy, William Havard, Marvin Lavechin, Emmanuel Dupoux, Alejandrina Cristia. Measuring Language Development From Child-centered Recordings. Interspeech 2023, Aug 2023, Dublin, Ireland. pp.4618-4622, ⟨10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1569⟩. ⟨halshs-04294822⟩
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