CHILDES Clinical English Rescorla Corpus

Leslie Rescorla
(1945-2020)
Psychology
Bryn Mawr College
website

Participants:	79
Type of Study:	naturalistic
Location:	USA
Media type:	video
DOI:	doi:10.21415/T59D5W

Citation information

Articles derived from this corpus have been cited thousands of times, and users are encouraged to do a full search of Professor Rescorla’s body of work. Users of this corpus are asked to cite at least one of the following, and will find useful details about the corpus that can inform its use in her numerous publications.

Rescorla, L. (1989). The Language Development Survey: A screening tool for delayed language in toddlers. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 54(4), 587-599.

Rescorla, L., Roberts, J., & Dahlsgaard, K. (1997). Late talkers at 2: Outcome at age 3. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 40(3), 556-566.

Rescorla, L., & Bernstein Ratner, N. (1996). Phonetic profiles of toddlers with specific expressive language impairment (SLI-E). Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 39(1), 153-165.

Manhardt, J., & Rescorla, L. (2002). Oral narrative skills of late talkers at ages 8 and 9. Applied Psycholinguistics, 23(1), 1-21.

Rescorla, L. (2011). Late talkers: Do good predictors of outcome exist? Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 17(2), 141-150. here.

Project Description

All recordings were conducted in the Child Study Institute at Bryn Mawr College. For ages 36, 48, and 60, the activities were free play with the Fisher-Price village. For age 108 months, the activity was the Frog Story description. The materials for age 96 were largely tests and that age is not included in CHILDES. The spa codes were newly developed for this project. SES uses the Hollingshead index 6. flo used for mispronunciation of real words and for transliterations of yyy