This paper defines a measure called the comprehension-to-production (C2P) index to investigate whether nouns have predominance over verbs in children’s word learning that identifies a partial word learning period from comprehension to production. We applied the C2P index to noun predominance using cross-lingual child communicative development inventory databases and confirmed that it indicates noun predominance in word learning, suggesting that the process between a word’s comprehension and its production is a significant factor of predominance in noun learning by children.
@InProceedings{MINAMI18.383, author = {Yasuhiro Minami and Tessei Kobayashi and Yuko Okumura}, title = "{Infant Word Comprehension-to-Production Index Applied to Investigation of Noun Learning Predominance Using Cross-lingual CDI database}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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