About

Wordbank is an open database of children’s vocabulary growth, built on data from the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) and their adaptations across many languages. It is developed and maintained by the Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford University.

Project Contributors

Michael C. Frank
Stanford University

Virginia Marchman
Stanford University

Mika Braginsky
Stanford University

Daniel Yurovsky
Carnegie Mellon University

Danielle Kellier
UPenn

Benny deMayo
Princeton University

George Kachergis
Skillprint

Alvin Tan
Stanford University

Jess Mankewitz
UW-Madison

Henry Mehta
Hexia Web Services Limited

Who funds Wordbank?

The team would like to thank our supporters! The construction of Wordbank was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (#1451577), as well as generous support from the MB-CDI Advisory Board.

Thanks to Brock Ferguson for help with database design and optimization, and to Rose Schneider for logo design.

Papers and Publications

d3 = require("d3@7")
pubs = d3.json("resources/publications.json")

html`<table class="pubs-table">
  <thead><tr><th>Year</th><th>Citation</th><th></th></tr></thead>
  <tbody>${pubs.map((p) => html`<tr>
    <td>${p.year}</td>
    <td>${p.authors} (${p.year}). ${p.title}. <em>${p.venue}.</em></td>
    <td>${p.link ? html`<a href="${p.link}" target="_blank">[${p.link_label ?? "pdf"}]</a>` : ""}</td>
  </tr>`)}</tbody>
</table>`

Links

• Contact us
• Wordbank on GitHub
• wordbankr tutorial
• wordbankr on GitHub

This site

This site is a static rebuild of the original wordbank.stanford.edu: data are hosted on Redivis and all visualization runs in your browser. Source at langcog/wordbank-datapage.