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2016 INTERSPEECH INTERSPEECH 2016

Talking with Kids Really Matters: Early Language Experience Shapes Later Life Chances

Abstract

The foundation for lifelong literacy is built through a child’s experience with language in the first five years. Integrating research from biological, psycholinguistic, and sociocultural perspectives, I will examine why millions of children fail to reach their developmental potential in the early years and enter school without a strong foundation for learning, resulting in enormous loss of human potential.

🚀 Conference Pioneer — INTERSPEECH 2016
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — early childhood education
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — language acquisition
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Interdisciplinary, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Speech & Audio

Authors

Anne Fernald

Topics

Artificial Intelligence > Learning Paradigms > Transfer Learning

Keywords

language acquisition early childhood education language development child literacy child language acquisition child development early language development language experience vocabulary development early language experience literacy foundation lifelong literacy developmental potential
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