CHILDES English Valian Corpus
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Virginia Valian Department of Psychology Hunter College virginia.valian@hunter.cuny.edu |
| Participants: | 21 |
| Type of Study: | naturalistic |
| Location: | USA |
| Media type: | audio |
| DOI: | doi:10.21415/T5ZS3T |
Citation information
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Valian, V. (1991). Syntactic subjects in the early speech of American
and Italian children. Cognition, 40, 21–81.
In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one of the above references.
Project Description
These data were contributed by Virginia Valian in 1995 and reformatted into CHAT later in that year. They were used as the empirical basis for Valian (1991) that compared English and Italian development. However, only the English data are available here. The corpus includes two samples each from 21 children distributed across the following levels of MLU:| Child | MLU | Child | MLU |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 1.53 | 11 | 3.07 |
| 02 | 1.74 | 12 | 3.15 |
| 03 | 1.79 | 13 | 3.16 |
| 04 | 1.81 | 14 | 3.31 |
| 05 | 1.99 | 15 | 3.34 |
| 06 | 2.24 | 16 | 3.62 |
| 07 | 2.28 | 17 | 3.68 |
| 08 | 2.52 | 18 | 3.72 |
| 09 | 2.66 | 19 | 4.12 |
| 10 | 2.76 | 20 | 4.17 |
| 21 | 4.38 |