Innovative Uses of LENA Pro


Innovative Uses of LENA Pro


LENA Pro can be used for a variety of research applications:

  • Capture and play back high-quality audio in a .wav format to analyze
    • morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
    • language acquisition
    • adult-child and child-child interactions
    • code switching
  • Generate a pre-segmented file that can be accessed and transcribed via Transcriber, CLAN, and SALT
  • Estimate word counts and durations of male and female adult speakers
  • Approximate utterance frequency and durations of key child
  • Determine durations of male and female adults, other children, television and electronic sounds, overlapping sounds, noise, silence, and distant and unclear sounds
  • Access and analyze sound pressure level data (in dB SPL) for all audio signals, including speakers, overlap, noise, silence, television and electronic sounds
  • Access and analyze duration of all dominant television and electronic sounds
  • Investigate vocal interactions, including initiation and duration, between the key child and other children using Advanced Data Extractor (ADEX) tool
  • Study early literacy and child development in preschool and early grade school