CHILDES Dutch van Kampen Corpus

Jacqueline van Kampen UiL OTS Utrecht University N.J.vanKampen@uu.nl website

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van Kampen, J. (2009). The non-biological evolution of grammar: Wh-question formation in Germanic. Biolinguistics, 3(2-3), 154-185.

In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by the above reference.

Other related articles include:

van Kampen, J. (2006a). The acquisition of the standard EPP in Dutch and French. Studies on Agreement, 99-119.

van Kampen, J. (2006b). Early operators and late topic-drop/pro-drop. Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 41, 203.

van Kampen, J., & Uil, O. T. S. (2006c). Hierarchies in the learnability of parts-of-speech The example of A-bar relative pronouns.

van Kampen, N. J. (2007). Relative agreement in Dutch. Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007, 112-125.

van Kampen, J. (2010a). The learnability of A-bar chains. The Linguistics Enterprise. From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics, ed. Martin Everaert, Tom Lentz, Hannah de Mulder, Øystein Nilsen, and Arjen Zondervan, Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 150, 115-140.

van Kampen, J. (2010b). Typological guidance in the acquisition of V2 Dutch. Lingua, 120(2), 264-283.

van Kampen, J. (2016). Deriving verb-cluster variation in Dutch and German. Linguistics in the Netherlands, 33(1), 54-69.

van Kampen, J. (2017). Afrikaans directionality switch in ‘triple’V-clusters with the auxiliary het. Linguistics in the Netherlands, 34(1), 77-91.

For a full list of publications based on data from the related CHILDES corpora, please download this document.

Project Description

The recordings were made using a Prefer OCC/1121 microphone and a Nakamichi 350 recorder. The transcribers used a Sanyo TRC 9010 with foot pedal. The recordings were made in unstructured, regular home settings between the target child and the mother. The initial transcription is done by one of the assistants. The final version is always checked by Van Kampen. There has been no explicit use of %mor or %syn tiers. Only in the cases when the child used nonadult words or incomprehensible utterances, was the %pho tier was used. Utterances containing the tag-question marker “he” at the end have not been given a question mark. This is done to distinguish them from real questions with inversion.

Please discuss use of these data with Dr. van Kampen. Additional diary notes on the children’s development are also available from Dr. van Kampen.

Acknowledgements

The collection of the data is funded by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO), project 300-171-027 “The acquisition of WH-questions.”

Assistance was provided by Christel de Heus, Evelien Krikhaar, Jacky Vernimmen and Simone Boezewinkel.