Presentation 2019-02-02
The roles of parental talk and storybook in children's emotion word learning
Naomi Watanabe, Takashi Hattori, Asami Shinohara, Tessei Kobayashi,
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Abstract(in English) The present study investigated the content and frequency of emotion words in Japanese children’s storybooks and compared them with those of parental emotion word usage. First, we created a comprehensive Japanese emotion word list (770 words) using the lists from previous research and emotion expression dictionaries. For the analysis, the Japanese storybook corpus, which contains the text of 5,394 storybooks and parents’ utterances from 448 Japanese parent-child interactions in the CHILDES database were used. The results show that storybooks present a wide variety of emotion words, which may include emotions that children rarely experience in daily life. When comparing the top 20 most frequently used emotion words in storybooks to those in parental utterances, storybooks featured more positive emotion words while parents used more negative emotion words.
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Keyword(in English) emotion word / infant / toddler / preschooler / parental talk / storybook
Paper # HCS2018-58
Date of Issue 2019-01-25 (HCS)

Conference Information
Committee HCS
Conference Date 2019/2/1(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Niigata Nippo Media Ship
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Psychology and Life-stage of Communication, etc.
Chair Masafumi Matsuda(NTT)
Vice Chair Nobuyuki Watanabe(Kanazawa Inst. of Tech.) / Tomoo Inoue(Univ. of Tsukuba)
Secretary Nobuyuki Watanabe(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Tomoo Inoue(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.)
Assistant Kazuki Takashima(Tohoku Univ.) / Ken Fujiwara(Osaka Univ. of Economic) / Kazunori Terada(Gifu Univ.) / Atsushi Kimura(Nihon Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Human Communication Science
Language JPN
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Title (in English) The roles of parental talk and storybook in children's emotion word learning
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) emotion word
Keyword(2) infant
Keyword(3) toddler
Keyword(4) preschooler
Keyword(5) parental talk
Keyword(6) storybook
1st Author's Name Naomi Watanabe
1st Author's Affiliation NTT Communication Science Laboratories(NTT)
2nd Author's Name Takashi Hattori
2nd Author's Affiliation NTT Communication Science Laboratories(NTT)
3rd Author's Name Asami Shinohara
3rd Author's Affiliation Nagoya University(Nagoya Univ.)
4th Author's Name Tessei Kobayashi
4th Author's Affiliation NTT Communication Science Laboratories(NTT)
Date 2019-02-02
Paper # HCS2018-58
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) HCS-437
Page pp.pp.59-63(HCS),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2019-01-25 (HCS)