KidsWords is an international collaborative research project on the early language development of children growing up in New Zealand. One of the aims of the project is to establish normative data for the New Zealand adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words & Sentences (PDF version available above). Another aim is to examine factors thought to be associated with children's early vocabulary and grammatical development.
Over 2,500 parents of toddlers between 16 and 30 months of age, from every region of New Zealand, participated and data were collected online at kidswords.org (website no longer active).
The purpose of this repository is to make our data analyses transparent and reproducible. To that end, text-based R scripts and data files (CSV format) will be placed here as they become available.
- Thomas Klee, The University of Hong Kong
- Stephanie F Stokes, The University of Hong Kong
- Elaine Reese, University of Otago
- Rune Jørgensen, University of Southern Denmark
- Dorthe Bleses, Aarhus University
- William J Gavin, Colorado State University
- Nuttanan Witchitaksorn, Auckland University of Technology
Funding was provided by the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand (UOC 1003) to Thomas Klee, Stephanie F Stokes and Catherine Moran, University of Canterbury, and by the MacArthur-Bates CDI Advisory Board.
