CHILDES English Gleason Corpus

Jean Berko Gleason
Department of Psychology
Boston University
gleason@bu.edu
website

Participants:	24
Type of Study:	naturalistic
Location:	USA
Media type:	audio
DOI:	doi:10.21415/T5101R

Citation information

Bellinger, D., & Gleason, J. (1982). Sex differences in parental directives to young chil-dren. Journal of Sex Roles, 8, 1123–1139.

Gleason, J. B. (1980). The acquisition of social speech and politeness formulae. In H. Giles, W. P. Robinson, & S. M. P. (Eds.), Language: Social psychological perspectives. Oxford: UK: Pergamon.

Gleason, J. B., & Greif, E. (1983). Men’s speech to young children. In B. Thorne, C. Kramerae, & N. Henley (Eds.), Language, Gender and Society. Rowley, MA: Newbury.

Gleason, J. B., Perlmann, R. Y., & Greif, E. B. (1984). What’s the magic word? Learning language through routines. Discourse Processes, 6, 493–502.

Greif, E. B., & Gleason, J. B. (1980). Hi, thanks and goodbye: More routine information. Language in Society, 9, 159-166.

Masur, E., & Gleason, J. B. (1980). Parent–child interaction and the acquisition of lexical information during play. Developmental Psychology, 16, 404–409.

Menn, L., & Gleason, J. B. (1986). Babytalk as a stereotype and register: Adult reports of children’s speech patterns. In J. A. Fishman (Ed.), The Fergusonian Impact, Volume I. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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

Project Description

This directory contains files donated to the CHILDES in 1988 by Jean Berko Gleason. The data were collected in the context of project called “Studies in the Acquisition of Communicative Competence,” which was funded for 3 years by NSF grant #BNS 75-21909 to Jean Berko Gleason at Boston University. The participants are 24 children aged 2;1 to 5;2 who were recorded in interactions (a) with their mother, (b) with their father, and (c) at the dinner table. The 24 participants were recruited through nursery schools and similar networks, and were from middle-class families in the greater Boston area. There were 12 boys and 12 girls. All families were White, and English was spoken as a first language in all families. Each child was seen three times: once in the laboratory with the mother; once in the laboratory with the father; and once at dinner with both mother and father. The laboratory sessions were videotaped and audiotaped, and the dinners were only audiotaped. Laboratory sessions included: (a) play with a toy auto, (b) reading a picture book, and (c) playing store. The parent was encouraged to divide each 30-minute lab session about evenly among these activities. In addition, each child was presented with a small gift during the lab session, and the gift-giving interchange was also recorded.

S#	Visit#	Date	Type	Child	Birth	Age
1	1	6/11/76	Father	Andy	5/23/72	4;0.18
	2	6/25/76	Mother			4;1.2
	3	6/23/76	Dinner			4;2.0
2	1	6/15/76	Mother	Bobby	4/27/72	4;1.19
	2	9/24/76	Father			4;4.28
	3	6/28/76	Home			4;2.1
3	1	6/23/76	Father	Charlie	7/6/73	2;11.17
	2	7/14/76	Mother			3;0.8
	3	7/7/76	Dinner			3;0.1
4	1	6/26/76	Father	David	5/7/72	4;1.19
	2	7/10/76	Mother			4;2.3
	3	7/8/76	Dinner			4;2.1
5	1	7/13/76	Mother	Edward	4/1/72	4;3.12
	2	8/7/76	Father			4;4.6
	3	8/4/76	Dinner			4;4.3
6	1	7/14/76	Mother	Frank	5/14/71	5;2.0
	2	7/24/76	Father			5;2.10
	3	7/21/76	Dinner			5;2.7
7	1	7/23/76	Mother	Guy	7/3/73	3;0.20
	2	8/7/76	Father			3;1.4
	3	7/8/76	Dinner			3;0.5
8	1	7/27/76	Mother	Helen	8/25/71	4;11.2
	2	8/4/76	Father			4;11.10
	3	1/8/76	Dinner			4;4.14
9	1	9/22/76	Mother	Isadora	3/15/73	3;6.7
	2	10/16/76	Father			3;7.1
	3	10/6/76	Dinner			3;6.21
10	1	9/28/76	Mother	John	8/10/72	4;1.18
	2	10/27/76	Father			4;2.17
	3	11/2/76	Dinner			4;2.23
11	1	9/29/76	Mother	Katie	7/27/73	3;2.2
	2	10/18/76	Father			3;2.21
	3	unknown	Dinner
12	1	9/30/76	Mother	Laurel	10/24/73	2;11.6
	2	11/13/76	Father			3;0.20
	3	11/16/76	Dinner			3;0.23
13	1	10/6/76	Mother	Martin	4/11/74	2;5.26
	2	10/23/76	Father			2;6.12
	3	11/3/76	Dinner			2;6.23
14	1	10/7/76	Mother	Nanette	9/3/74	2;1.4
	2	10/23/76	Father			2;1.20
	3	11/9/76	Dinner			2;2.6
15	1	10/16/76	Father	Olivia	8/4/73	3;2.12
	2	11/20/76	Mother			3;3.16
	3	11/2/76	Dinner			3;2.29
16	1	10/27/76	Mother	Patricia	5/18/74	2;5.9
	2	11/18/76	Father			2;6.0
	3	11/17/76	Dinner			2;5.30
17	1	10/28/76	Mother	Richard	2/10/74	2;8.18
	2	11/30/76	Father			2;9.20
	3	12/2/76	Dinner	(no file)		2;9.22
18	1	1/14/77	Father	Susan	11/11/73	3;2.3
	2	2/1/77	Mother			3;2.21
	3	unknown	Dinner
19	1	2/24/77	Mother	Theresa	2/24/73	4;0.0
	2	5/14/77	Father			4;2.20
	3	unknown	Dinner
20	1	4/19/77	Father	Ursula	9/19/73	3;7.0
	2	5/14/77	Mother			3;7.25
	3	?	Dinner	(no file)
21	1	4/11/77	Mother	Victor	12/20/74	2;3.22
	2	5/23/77	Father			2;5.3
	3	unknown	Dinner
22	1	5/3/77	Father	Wanda	5/10/73	3;11.22
	2	5/21/77	Mother			4;0.11
	3	unknown	Dinner
23	1	2/15/78	Mother	William	11/27/75	2;2.16
	2	3/18/78	Father			2;3.22
	3	3/17/78	Dinner			2;3.21
24	1	3/4/79	Mother	Xavia
	2	17/7/79	Father
	3	12/9/79	Dinner

Acknowledgements

Mary MacWhinney reformatted this corpus into accord with current versions of CHAT.

This project was funded for 3 years by NSF grant #BNS 75-21909 to Jean Berko Gleason at Boston University.