Date and time

The lecture will take place on Thursday 12 January from 16.30 – 17.30 in PCH 1.04 (Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam).

Title

Bigger data about smaller people: Studying language learning at scale

Abstract

Every typically developing child learns to talk, but children vary tremendously in how and when they do so. What predicts this variability, and what is consistent across children and across learners of different languages? In this talk, I’ll describe our efforts to create predictive models of early language learning as a way of formalizing hypotheses in this space. This goal has led us to create open data resources like Wordbank and Peekbank that capture data from tens of thousands of children learning dozens of different languages.

About the Schultink Lecture

The Schultink lecture is part of the LOT winter school, co-organised by the ACLC. The Schultink Lecture will be given in honor of Henk Schultink.