A Year of Nouns From English-learning Infants’ Daily Lives: the SEEDLingS-Nouns

This paper describes a dataset consisting of manually annotated nouns from a corpus of longitudinal day-long audio and hour-long video recordings collected monthly from 44 babies from age 6 months to age 17 months. This dataset was created as part of a larger project, called SEEDLingS, that examines the development of iinfants’ language comprehension before and after their first birthday, from earliest comprehension to the early days of word produc tion. This paper provides an overviewof the corpus, describes how and why the nouns from the corpus were annotated, and discusses considerations for reuse of this dataset for future work. The described annotations and relevant metadata are publicly available alongside this manuscript.