Resources

​Existing language data:​​

• Homebank: database of at-home recordings of children's everyday language experience

• CHILDES: child language corpora

• ASL-LEX: database of lexical and phonological properties of American Sign Language (includes age of acquisition)

• Wordbank: database of early vocabulary data from Communicative Development Inventory

• Peekbank: open database of children's word recognition eyetracking data

• ASL-PLAY

Infant data collection:

• Bergelson Lab documentation for collecting infant EEG data

• Attention getters for experiments

• Long form recordings: Excellent resource for all things LENA from Alex Cristia

• ACLEW annotation: tutorials for using the ACLEW annotation scheme for detailed child language transcription in ELAN

• Experimentology

Programming tutorials:

• R for Data Science: great tutorials for getting started with R, and specifically tidyverse

• Reproducible Research in R

• Duke Institute for Brain Science Methods Meetings: workshops and tutorials on various topics in methods, statistics, and models in neuroscience.

Statistics:

• Michael Freeman's explanation of mixed effect models

Being happy in academia:

• The Writing Workshop: a life-changing (online! free!) book for less stressful academic writing

• VIA Strengths Inventory: a free online survey to remind yourself that you have strengths!

Participating in research: 

• Children Helping Science: website of studies that families can participate in from home

• Zooniverse: platform hosting citizen science projects

• The Music Lab: fun, online music games / quizzes 

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