CHILDES English Morisset Corpus

Colleen Huebner Morisset
Department of Health Sciences
University of Washington
colleenh@uw.edu
website

Participants:	68, 79, 58
Type of Study:	naturalistic
Location:	USA
Media type:	no longer available
DOI:	doi:10.21415/T53895

Citation information

Morisset, C. E., Barnard, K. E., & Booth, C. L. (1995). Toddlers' language development: Sex differences within social risk. Developmental Psychology, 31(5), 851-865.

Kelly, J. F., Morisset, C. E., Barnard, K. E., Hammond, M. A., & Booth, C. L. (1996). The influence of early mother—child interaction on preschool cognitive/linguistic outcomes in a high‐social‐risk group. Infant Mental Health Journal: Official Publication of The World Association for Infant Mental Health, 17(4), 310-321.

Morisset, C. (1991). Environmental influences on language development of high social-risk toddlers., University of Washington.

Morisset, C. E., Barnard, K. E., Greenberg, M. T., Booth, C. L., & Spieker, S. J. (1990). Environmental influence on early language development: The context of social risk. Development and Psychopathology, 2, 127-149.

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

These data come from a three-site study of language in children of welfare mothers. The sites were Seattle, Topeka, and UCLA. The 68 transcripts from the Seattle site used the prohibition task. The 79 transcripts from the Topeka site used snack sessions. In both of these sites, the children were all about 2;6 of age. For the Topeka data, the language sample is said to begin when the Examiner leaves the room (usually at the sound of the door closing) after she has finished setting up the snack. It ends when the Examiner reenters after about six minutes. In the UCLA sample, there are 58 children ranging in age from about 2;11 to 3;6, using a mother-child free play situation.