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Analyzing Characteristics of Picture Books based on an Infant's Developmental Reactions in Reviews on Picture Books

Authors:
Mizuho Baba
Hiroshi Uehara
Miho Kasamatsu
Takehito Utsuro
Chen Zhao

Keywords: picture books; review analysis; clustering; developmental reaction

Abstract:
Parents or child-care personnel generally read aloud to an infant, when infants who are not able to read characters read a picture book. Infants are able to perceive the contents of the book by listening to the voice and watching the pictures. Therefore,reviews for picture books have different characteristics than general book reviews. There are descriptions of an infant’s reactions as well as descriptions of reviewer’s impressions in reviews. We focus on descriptions of an infant’s reactions, and analyze those extracted from reviews. Especially, in this paper, we study the relation between the contents of picture books and an infant’s developmental reactions. More specifically, we select six typical expressions representing an infant’s developmental reactions.Then,we analyze characteristics of picture books which have sufficiently high frequency of those six expressions representing an infant’s developmental reactions.Moreover, we further examine which characteristics of each picture book actually contribute to letting infants show developmental reactions.

Pages: 57 to 62

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: April 23, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8386

ISBN: 978-1-61208-552-4

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 23, 2017 to April 27, 2017