CHILDES | English-NA-MOR Corpora |
This page provides an index to the CHILDES English - North American data.
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Corpus____________ | Age Range | N | Media | Comments |
Bates | 1;8 and 2;4 | 27 | video | two sessions for each child |
BernsteinRatner | 1;1-1;11 | 9 | audio | play sessions and mother interviews |
Bliss | 3-10 | 8 | - | control participants |
Bloom | 1;9-3;2 | 3 | audio | large longitudinal study of one child and samples for two others |
Bohannon | 2;8 and 3;0 | 2 | - | children interacting with different adults |
Braunwald | 1;0-6;0 | 1 | audio | longitudinal study with audio and diary notes |
Brent | 0;6-1;0 | 16 | audio | mothers speaking to preverbal infants, linked |
Brown | 1;6-5;1 | 3 | - | classic study of Adam, Eve, and Sarah |
Champaign | 1-3 | 44 | audio/video archived | longitudinal |
Clark | 2;2-3;2 | 1 | - | transcripts with attention to disfluencies |
Demetras - Trevor | 2;0-3;11 | 1 | - | father-son interactions |
Demetras - Working | 2;0-2;6 | 3 | - | 2 weeks of recording for each child |
EllisWeismer | 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, 5;6 | 138 | audio | late talkers and controls |
Evans | 2;1-2;9 | 44 | - | dyads, each with one high verbal and one low verbal child |
Feldman (Andrea) | 1;2-2;3 | 1 | - | case study |
Garvey | 2;10-5;7 | 46 | - | dyadic school dialogs |
Gathercole | 2;10-5;7 | 8 | - | lunchtime dialogs |
Gelman | 1;6-7;0 | 46, 72, 72, and 36 | - | mothers telling stories, picture descriptions |
Gillam | 5-12 | 250 disordered, 520 controls | - | free story telling |
Gleason | 2;1-5;2 | 48 | audio | mother-child, father-child, and dinner, linked |
Haggerty | 2;6 | 1 | - | one child in one day |
Hall | 4;6-5;0 | 39 | audio | White/Black; working/professional |
Higginson | 0;11-2;11 | 3 | - | play sessions |
HSLLD | 2-6 | 83 | audio | Harvard home-school project |
Kuczaj | 2;4-4;1 | 1 | - | longitudinal study |
MacWhinney | 0;7-8;0 | 2 | audio | two brothers in natural situations, linked |
McCune | 1-3 | 9 | video | work in progress, linked |
McMillan | 3;0 | 2 | video | small book reading samples, linked |
Morisset | 2;6 | 206 | - | children of welfare mothers at three sites |
Nadig | 3-7 | 12 English, 8 French | - | control children |
Nelson | 1;9-3;0 | 1 | audio | bedtime monologues, linked |
New England | 1;2, 1;8, 2;3 | 52 | audio | lab sessions with three activities |
NewmanRatner | 0;7-2;0 | 121 | audio | home visits |
Nicholas-TD | 1;0-4;0 | 45 | - | controls |
Nicolopoulou | 3;1-5;9 | 49 | - | free storytelling, longitudinal |
Nippold | 6-11 | 34 | audio | chess players |
OCSC | 4-9 | 303 | audio | interview tasks |
Peters/Wilson | 1;7-4;1 | 1 | audio | father and his visually-impaired son |
POLER-Controls | 5-12 | 26 controls | audio | children with epilepsy and controls, linked |
Post | 1;7-2;8 | 3 | - | free play in children's homes |
Rollins | 6, 9, 12 months | 12 | video | play sessions |
Rondal-TD | 3-12 | 21 | - | normal controls |
Sachs | 1;1-5;1 | 1 | audio | longitudinal study, linked |
Sawyer | 3;6-4;11 | 20 | audio | group conversations in daycare, linked |
Snow | 2;3-3;9 | 1 | audio | longitudinal study with lots of book reading, linked |
Soderstrom | 0;6-1;0 | 2 | audio | mothers with their preverbal children, linked |
Sprott | 4-6 | 12 | audio | in progress |
StoopsMontag | 2;3-3;1 | 12 | audio | book reading |
Suppes | 1;11-3;3 | 1 | - | case study |
Tardif | 1;6-1;9 | 24 | - | cross-sectional, free play and book |
Valian | 1;9-2;8 | 21 | - | comparing English and Italian subject deletion |
Van Houten | at 2;0 and then at 3;0 | 28 | audio | adolescent vs older mothers, 3 situations |
Van Kleeck | 3;0-4;0 | 20 | - | two half-hour sessions |
Warren-Leubecker | 1;6-3;1 and 4;6-6;2 | 10 and 10 | - | parent-child |
Weist | 2;1-5;0 | 6 | audio | aspect learning |
Corpora in PhonBank | ||||
ComptonPater | 0;8-3;3 | 4 | - | in PhonBank |
Davis | 0;7-2;4 | 21 | audio | in PhonBank |
Goad | 1;5-3;6 | 2 | audio | in PhonBank |
Inkelas | 0;6-4;0 | 1 | - | in PhonBank |
Menn | 0;6-4;0 | 1 | audio | in PhonBank |
Paidologos-English | 2;0-5;0 | 81 | audio | in PhonBank |
Providence | 1-3 | 6 | video | in PhonBank |
Stanford-English | 0;8-1;4 | 5 | coming | in PhonBank |
Feldman (Heidi) | ||||
Narrative | 1;6-3;6 | 18 focal and 10 control | - | narratives from children with focal lesions and controls |
Parent-Child | 1;6-3;6 | 56 focal and 50 control | - | children with focal lesions and controls |
Twins | 1;6-3;6 | 2 twin pairs | - | children with focal lesions and twin controls |