Papers by Yuko Okumura
Infant Word Comprehension-to-Production Index Applied to Investigation of Noun Learning Predominance Using Cross-lingual CDI database (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing theories suggest nouns should predominate verbs in children's word learning . |
| Approach: | They define a measure called the comprehension-to-production index to investigate whether nouns have predominance over verbs in children's word learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed measure indicates noun predominance in word learning by children . it could provide clues for engineering solutions for teaching words to computers . |
Analyzing Vocabulary Commonality Index Using Large-scaled Database of Child Language Development (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a vocabulary commonality index is used to investigate to what extent each child acquires common words during the early stages of lexical development. |
| Approach: | They propose a vocabulary commonality index to investigate to what extent each child acquires common words during the early stages of lexical development. |
| Outcome: | The proposed index can be used to understand to what extent each child acquires common words during the early stages of lexical development. |