CHILDES

CHILDES Corpora

This page provides an index to CHILDES corpora, organized by language group and data type. In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from these corpora must cite at least one corpus reference (see citation info on corpus page) and acknowledge CHILDES grant support -- NICHD HD082736.

Signed contribution forms are available here .

Corpora that focus on early child phonology can be found at the PhonBank site . The majority of PhonBank corpora contain transcriptions of child productions without inclusion of the overall conversation. However, there are six PhonBank corpora (Davis, Lyon, Paris, Providence, Yamaguchi, and WeistJarosz) that have full transcriptions. Those corpora are included here in the CHILDES database and their transcriptions in Phon format can be found at the PhonBank website.

Collection	Description	Collection	Description
Bilingual	children learning two or more languages	Celtic	Irish and Welsh
Clinical-Eng	language disorders - English	Clinical-Other	language disorders - other languages
Chinese	Cantonese, Mandarin, Taiwanese	DutchAfrikaans	Dutch and Afrikaans
EastAsian	Korean, Indonesian, Thai	Eng-AAE	North America
Eng-NA	North America	Eng-UK	United Kingdom
French	French	German	German
Japanese	Japanese	Romance	Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian
Scandinavian	Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian	Slavic	Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian
Spanish	Spanish	Other - 1	Arabic, Basque, Berber, Cree
Other - 2	Estonian, Farsi, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian	Other - 3	Jamaican, Quechua, Sesotho, Tamil, Turkish
Frogs	Frog story narratives	MAIN	MAIN narratives
Narrative	Other narratives	XLing	Crosslinguistic studies