Sustaining Language Acquisition Research in Africa: A Commentary on Scaff et al. (2025)
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Scaff, Loukatou, Cristia, and Havron (2025) reveal crucial biases in the major naturalist language recordings database for child language acquisition, raising questions about the generalizability of the CHILDES database. In this commentary, taking Ghana and Nigeria as concrete examples, we discuss how research in rural and urban African communities can be a critical step toward broadening the linguistic and cultural diversity in child language acquisition research and improve the generalizability of our findings. We provide some steps that can help expand language acquisition research in underrepresented communities and speaker populations and promote representativeness
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