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# Less is More: Pre-Training Cross-Lingual Small-Scale Language Models with Cognitively-Plausible Curriculum Learning Strategies. Available from: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22886. 

Salhan et al (2024) creates age-ordered corpora of Child-Directed Speech for four typologically distant language families to implement SSLMs and acquisition-inspired curricula cross-lingually. 

The MAO-CHILDES dataset contains extract orthographic datasets for French, German, Japanese and Chinese and several other lower-resource languages. It is part of a wider effort for cognitively-inspired pretraining using resources from Language Acquistiion.

You can also find pretrained BabyLMs for French, German, Japanese and Chinese with three different cognitively-inspired curriculum learning in the branches of each language-specific BabyLM.