Links where I observed this issue:
http://childes-db.stanford.edu/frequency.html
http://childes-db.stanford.edu/mlu.html
http://childes-db.stanford.edu/population.html
I did successfully generate figures for a sample of other languages (Spanish, Chinese, ...).
From Christina Bergmann:
https://github.com/langcog/childes-db/issues/41#issue-428850899