Infant Vocalizations
Burstiness
Terminology
Communication
Methodology
100

Words are classified as this kind of babble

What is canonical?

100

Events in time that occur at short, clustered intervals in time followed by longer intervals of time

What is bursty?

100

The number of unique words in a stream of speech

What are types?

100

The variety of unique words

What is lexical diversity?

100

A software used to annotate video data

What is Datavyu?

200

This type of babble includes both an audible consonant and vowel

What is canonical?

200

Time intervals between events are all even, regular

What is periodic?

200

Total number of words in a stream of speech

What are tokens?

200

Mean length of ____ is a way to measure responsiveness to children

What is utterance? (MLU)

200

This type of data is often collected in the home, rather than in a lab. 

What is naturalistic?

300

Raspberries/lip trills are this type of babble

What is noncanonical?

300

The bursty project is a collaboration between three universities: University of Oregon, University of Georgia, and ___

What is NYU?

300

This can be used to describe communication, which relies on several different modalities to convey meaning.

What is multimodal?

300

Hand movements that physically resemble the meaning of the spoken word they accompany.

What are iconic gestures?

300

A small recording device worn in an infant's vest.

What is LENA?

400

This must be present for something to be classified as a laugh or cry.

What is a breath catch?

400

The time between the onset of two events

inter-onset-interval (IOI)

400

Development occurs over several simultaneous ___, such as seconds & minutes, minutes & hours

What are (nested) time scales?

400

A gesture-based communication system that is not a recognized sign language

Homesign

400

A device that measures changes in direction

What is an accelerometer? 

500

This metric is calculated by dividing the number of canonical vocalizations by the number of canonical AND noncanonical vocalizations

What is canonical babbling ratio?

500

The burstiness metric (B) falls between __ and __.

 

What are -1 and 1?

500

Immense amounts of brief, time-distributed, variable interactions with objects

What is infant exuberant object play?

500

The InCHORRRuS framework considers the role of _____ in organizing caregivers’ communicative behaviors across modalities to scaffold communication and dyadic coordination in early social interactions.

What is rhythm?

500

A device that measures orientation

What is a gyroscope?

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