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In gracelawley/childes: A Collection of Child Language Samples from 14 Corpora in CHILDES (2018.1)

Description

An R package containing data from 14 English North American corpora of child language samples available for free in the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) (https://childes.talkbank.org).

Details

This package contains data from 14 corpora in CHILDES:

• Bloom 1970

• Braunwald

• Brown

• Clark

• Cornell

• Demetras

• Ellis Weismer

• Hall

• Kuczaj

• MacWhinney

• Sachs

• Suppes

• Warren

• Weist

This subset of corpora was chosen based on the following criteria:

Corpora:

• Part of the Eng-NA section of CHILDES

• Sufficient information about the details of the study and corpus is available

Participants:

• 36-96 months old

• English as first and primary language

• No reported gross sensory impairments (e.g. hearing impairment), congenital defects, developmental disabilities, or atypical development

• No significant/regular exposure to another language (i.e. 75 consistent exposure to a language other than English)

Language Sampling Procedure

• Naturalistic and unscripted elicitations (in either naturalistic or laboratory settings)

• Intelligible speech

• One-on-one conversations (e.g. child-examiner conversations or parent-child conversations)

  • Can be child-child conversations as long as both children meet the participant requirements

  • No conversations amongst a group of children

• No reading from books, etc.

• No restricted vocabulary that is caused by the structure of the study or the experiment design

  • e.g. no samples of free play sesssions for multiple participants that each involve the same set of experimenter-provided toys

• No structured speech

  • e.g. speech from an interview that has been tailored for a specific experimental interest(s)

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