get_content: Get content

In childesr: Accessing the 'CHILDES' Database

Get content

Description

Internal engine for the content getters ('get_tokens', 'get_types', 'get_utterances'). Filters are translated into a BigQuery Standard SQL query that runs server-side on Redivis, so that only the matching rows of the (very large) content tables are transferred. String comparisons are case-insensitive, mirroring the collation of the retired MySQL server.

Usage

get_content(
  content_type,
  collection = NULL,
  language = NULL,
  corpus = NULL,
  role = NULL,
  role_exclude = NULL,
  age = NULL,
  sex = NULL,
  target_child = NULL,
  token = NULL,
  stem = NULL,
  part_of_speech = NULL,
  tag
)

Arguments

content_type	One of "token", "utterance" or "token_frequency"
collection	A character vector of one or more names of collections
language	A character vector of one or more languages
corpus	A character vector of one or more names of corpora
role	A character vector of one or more roles to include
role_exclude	A character vector of one or more roles to exclude
age	A numeric vector of an single age value or a min age value and max age value (inclusive) in months. For a single age value, participants are returned for which that age is within their age range; for two ages, participants are returned for whose age overlaps with the interval between those two ages.
sex	A character vector of values "male" and/or "female"
target_child	A character vector of one or more names of children
token	A character vector of one or more token patterns ('%' matches any number of wildcard characters, '_' matches exactly one wildcard character)
stem	A character vector of one or more stems
part_of_speech	A character vector of one or more parts of speech
tag	Redivis dataset version tag (e.g. "v1.3")

childesr documentation built on Sept. 16, 2026, 9:09 a.m.