Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Montag, Jessica L
Department of Study
Psychology
Discipline
Psychology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Level
Thesis
Keyword(s)
Daylong Audio
Language Development
Manual Extrapolation
Sampling
Language
eng
Abstract
While naturalistic daylong audio recordings of children’s auditory environments have the potential to reveal key insights about the input children receive and inform our theories of language development, it also presents various methodological hurdles. In the present work, we used three fully transcribed daylong audio recordings to investigate the challenge of manually extrapolating aggregate statistics and quantify the kinds of sampling choices daylong researchers can make. We implemented a random sampling with replacement algorithm and investigated how sampling interval size and total time sampled impacts extrapolation on four linguistic features. Our findings highlight sampling choices that maximize sampling from the full distribution of the day and potential tradeoffs between human effort and obtaining accuracy.
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