get_utterances: Get utterances

In childesr: Accessing the 'CHILDES' Database

Get utterances

Description

Get utterances

Usage

get_utterances(
  collection = NULL,
  language = NULL,
  corpus = NULL,
  role = NULL,
  role_exclude = NULL,
  age = NULL,
  sex = NULL,
  target_child = NULL,
  connection = NULL,
  db_version = "current",
  db_args = NULL
)

Arguments

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
connection	Deprecated, ignored (childesr now reads from the childes-db dataset on Redivis)
db_version	String of the name of database version to use
db_args	Deprecated, ignored

Value

A 'tbl' of Utterance data, filtered down by supplied arguments

Identifiers

Numeric ids in childes-db ('transcript_id', 'utterance_id', token 'id', and so on) are internal to a database release: they are not stable across versions of childes-db and should never be used to link data across releases. The TalkBank persistent identifier (the 'pid' column returned by 'get_transcripts()') is the stable, externally-facing identifier for a transcript; use it to match transcripts across database versions or with other TalkBank tools. For reproducible analyses, pin the database version with the 'db_version' argument.

Examples

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get_utterances(target_child = "Shem")

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