Educational materials

Mike just taught a course at the University of Amsterdam LOT winter school on "Language Learning: A Data-Driven Approach." Here's the course description:

In this course, we will examine early language learning through the lens of new data resources that facilitate quantitative studies. Our framework will be the "Standard Model" of Kachergis, Marchman, and Frank (2022) that links language input to processing and learning outcomes, and we will consider the strengths and weaknesses of this model for describing vocabulary learning as well as the learning of some morphology and syntax. Our hands-on approach will involve learning the use of CHILDES and childes-db for studying language input, Wordbank for studying language outcomes, and Peekbank for studying processing.

Materials from Days 1 and 2 focus on Wordbank and reproduce several patterns from the Wordbank Book! All of the code and slides are available here: https://github.com/mcfrank/lot-language-learning-2023.