CHILDES English StoopsMontag Corpus

Anastasia Stoops Psychology University of Illinois

Jessica Montag Psychology University of Illinois

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Citation information

Stoops, A. & Montag, J. L. (2024). Stoops-Montag picture book reading corpus. doi:XXXXX

Stoops, A., Wu, M., Jung, I., & Montag, J. L. (in review). A novel corpus of naturalistic picture book reading with 2-3 year old children.

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Project Description

Audio recordings of 12 families with children 27-37 months of age reading picture books at home. Data was collected December 2019-March 2020. Audio recordings include novel books provided to the families by the experimenters: Oh the Places You’ll Go! (Dr. Seuss), Stellaluna (Janell Cannon), That is Not a Good Idea (Mo Willems), When Dinosaurs Came with Everything (Elise Broach) and books the families already owned at home. There are 183 book reading episodes, comprised of 60 novel books and 123 familiar books for a total of about 19 hours of picture book reading. All audio is diarized, segmented, and transcribed.

• The StoopsInfo.xlsx file provides full names of the books, numbers indicating the order of the files for each child, child gender, duration of the session, and number of books read.
• The StoopsBooks.docx file provides the short names for the books.
• The StoopsEAF.zip file provides .eaf files for each audio.

The $xds code indicates who speech is directed toward. It is coded for all speakers.