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https://bcccd.slack.com/archives/C02PHE12J22Cecile Crimon 1, Sho Tsuji 2, Alejandrina Cristia 1, Anne-Caroline Fiévet 1, Anne Christophe 11 École Normale Supérieure de Paris
2 International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of TokyoThe aim of this study is to develop a direct, quick, and reliable measure of language development in young children. Basing ourselves on previous efforts to develop a touchscreen based language test (Friend & Keplinger, 2008, Lo et al. 2021), that allow to directly measure word comprehension and speed of processing, we here add several novelties : our test is not only composed of a 2-alternative-forced-choice word comprehension task, but also of a novel word learning and phonological neighbour distinction task; it is aimed at French children from a wide age-range (20-32 mo) and meant to be easily administered in non-lab settings. In a pilot lab experiment, we tested 22 French children, aged 19-23 months, from a high-SES. Parents completed the French MBCDI. Our preliminary results show that children find the test engaging, with children completing on average 77% of the test (SD = 26), and actively answering for 70% of those trials (SD = 0.18). Regarding children’s scores, they show an average percentage for correct answers above change (M = 0.68, SD = 0.17), and this score was significantly predicted by their score at the MBCDI. In the coming months, we will administer our test on a larger sample of children (around 80 children), coming from a diverse social and linguistic background, by going to our partner daycares in the Paris region, France. This will allow us to check the feasibility of such measure for wider scale research and test the adaptedness of this test to older children.
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