criticalperiod_syntax

107,483,095 responses from 1,131,401 respondents to 95 items.

About this table

DescriptionSyntax questions
ReferenceChen, T., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2021). More evidence from over 1.1 million subjects that the critical period for syntax closes in late adolescence. Cognition, 214, 104706.
DOI10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104706
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://osf.io/vab8j/

Size and shape

Responses107,483,095
Respondents1,131,401
Items95
Response categories2
Responses per respondent95
Responses per item1,131,401
Density1
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

age rangeChild (<18y)
child age (for child-focused studies)Adolescent (12-18y)
construct typeCognitive/educational
primary language(s)eng
construct nameSyntax questions

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentWhich English? grammaticality-judgment quiz (Hartshorne, Tenenbaum & Pinker, 2018)
Mean words per item3.095
Mean characters per item15.568
Mean characters per response10.863
Flesch-Kincaid grade level3.324

Columns

iditemresp

Get the data

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("criticalperiod_syntax")
# Python
pip install git+https://github.com/itemresponsewarehouse/Python-pkg.git

import irw
df = irw.fetch("criticalperiod_syntax")

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Version and provenance

IRW versionv332
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse v47.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/3jrw-s263
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv46.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v19.3