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ERIC Number: EJ1157915
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Nov
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0009
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Introducing the Infant Bookreading Database (IBDb)
Hudson Kam, Carla L.; Matthewson, Lisa
Journal of Child Language, v44 n6 p1289-1308 Nov 2017
Studies on the relationship between bookreading and language development typically lack data about which books are actually read to children. This paper reports on an Internet survey designed to address this data gap. The resulting dataset (the Infant Bookreading Database or IBDb) includes responses from 1,107 caregivers of children aged 0-36 months who answered questions about the English-language books they most commonly read to their children. The inclusion of demographic information enables analysis of subsets of data based on age, sex, or caregivers' education level. A comparison between our dataset and those used in previous analyses reveals that there is relatively little overlap between booklists gathered from proxies such as bestseller lists and the books caregivers reported reading to children in our survey. The IBDb is available for download for use by researchers at <http://linguistics.ubc.ca/ubc-ibdb/>.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada; United States
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