Assessing children's home language environments using automatic speech recognition technology

Communication Disorders Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 83-92

  Greenwood, Charles R ^a   Thiemann Bourque, Kathy ^a   Walker, Dale ^a   Buzhardt, Jay ^a   Gilkerson, Jill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b LENA Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

applied research; language acquisition development; language assessment; research methodology; technology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY; HOME; HOME LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPEECH; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 79251637252     PISSN: 15257401     EISSN: 15384837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525740110367826     Document Type: Article

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