Rocha, Sinead; Ní Choisdealbha, Áine; Attaheri, Adam; Mead, Natasha; Olawole-Scott, Helen; Grey, Christina; Williams, Isabel; Gibbon, Samuel; Boutris, Panagiotis; Brusini, Perrine; Brough, Carmel; Alfaro e Oliveira, Maria; Goswami, Usha and Hassinger-Das, Brenna. 2024. Language Acquisition in the Longitudinal Cambridge UK BabyRhythm Cohort. Collabra: Psychology, 10(1), 92998. ISSN 2474-7394 [Article]

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The Cambridge UK BabyRhythm project is a study of 122 infants as they age from 2 – 30 months, investigating cortical tracking and sensorimotor synchronisation to acoustic and visual rhythm in relation to language acquisition. As there are few standardised language tasks appropriate for this age range, the BabyRhythm project adapted a range of parent-report and infant-led experimental measures that could be used within a home testing environment. Here we present a rich description of infant performance on tasks intended to sample 5 linguistic domains: semantics, phonology, grammar, rhythmic timing and gesture. For each task we describe infant performance (mean, median, range), and we also report performance by sex (N female = 57) and by monolingual (N = 91) versus multilingual (N = 31) home environments. We report relations between measures. We share our unique longitudinal database (all data available on OSF), and ‘lessons learned’ on adapting language assessments for very young children. Critically, we identify the language tasks that will be utilised in our longitudinal brain-behaviour analyses, providing the benchmark upon which future neural and behavioural markers will be measured.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.92998
Additional Information:	Funding: This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC), under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 694786).
Data Access Statement:	All testing procedures, including acquisition and analysis SOPs, participant data, and analysis scripts, are available on OSF (link: https://osf.io/ftejv/).
Keywords:	infant, language development, longitudinal, temporal sampling framework, brain-behaviour analyses
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 19 October 2023 Accepted 20 February 2024 Published
Item ID:	38000
Date Deposited:	17 Dec 2024 10:17
Last Modified:	17 Dec 2024 10:23
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38000

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