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- Title
Introducing the Infant Bookreading Database (IBDb).
- Authors
HUDSON KAM, CARLA L.; MATTHEWSON, LISA
- Abstract
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/>.
- Subjects
LITERATURE databases; READING interests of infants; LANGUAGE acquisition; INFANT development; DEMOGRAPHIC characteristics; INFANTS; CHILDREN; EARLY childhood education; PARENT-child relationships
- Publication
Journal of Child Language, 2017, Vol 44, Issue 6, p1289
- ISSN
0305-0009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0305000916000490