Sara Montazeri
Department of Psychology
University of Manitoba
montazes@myumanitoba.ca
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Sara Montazeri Department of Psychology University of Manitoba montazes@myumanitoba.ca |
| Participants: | 37 |
| Recordings: | 37 |
| Type of Study: | naturalistic |
| Location: | Iran |
| Media type: | audio |
Montazeri, S., & Soderstrom, M. (2026). Montazeri HomeBank Corpus. doi:[to be added]
Montazeri, S. (2026). Linguistic environment of Persian-learning infants in Iran: quantity and prosodic characteristics of caregiver speech (Doctoral dissertation). University of Manitoba. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/39655
In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one of the above references.
The Montazeri corpus contains recordings of the language environment of 6- to 13-month-old Persian-learning infants in Mashhad, Iran. Each participant contributed a single longform home audio recording, lasting on average 12 hours, collected using the Language ENvironment Analysis Digital Language Processor (LENA DLP; LENA Research Foundation, 2011). Demographic information on infants and caregivers, including linguistic background and household structure, is also available.
This project was supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant (2022-2027) awarded to Dr. Melanie Soderstrom, as well as multiple fellowships and awards from the University of Manitoba, including Psychology Graduate Fellowship (2019-2021), University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship (2021-2023), James Gordon Fletcher Graduate Research Award (2022), Faculty of Arts Endowment Fund (2024, 2025), Lois M. Brockman Graduate Student Thesis Fellowship in Child Development (2024), Faculty of Graduate Studies Research Completion Scholarship (2025), and conference travel awards (2024-2025) awarded to Sara Montazeri.
I would like to thank the participating families in Iran, the research assistants in the Baby Language Lab, my advisor and committee members, and the Department of Psychology at the University of Manitoba for their support throughout this project.
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