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