Current Research

Linguistic and Cognitive Development in Children

We are unique animals because we use language for complicated social communication and conceptual problem solving. Although human children appear to acquire easily language within a few years of birth, a computer cannot learn a human language like human children, even if we use very advanced technology represented by current computer science. Our aim is to clarify how children acquire language and to apply scientific evidence to support parenting and early education with ICT technology.

Research Topics:

• Analyzing vocabulary spurt based on longitudinal data
• Clarifying learning mechanism on nouns and verbs using syntactic cues by experimental approach
• Creating child vocabulary database (age of acquisition, production list, etc.) based on large sample cross-sectional data
• Proposing ICT application for language learning support