CHILDES | Eng Corpora |
This page provides an index to the CHILDES data from the United Kingdom. All corpora are tagged using Universal Dependencies except for Forrester and Smith.
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Corpus______________ | Age Range | N | Media | Comments |
Belfast | 2;4-4;5 | 8 | - | study of the role of input in Belfast English and Standard English |
Conti-Ramsden 1 | 4-9 | 8 | - | 4 British SLI children and their normal siblings |
Conti-Ramsden 4 | 13-15 | 19, 99 | - | 19 SLI children and 99 controls |
Cruttenden | 1;5-3;7 | dyzygotic twins | - | in PhonBank |
Edinburgh | 0;9 | 47 | audio for 24 | early mother-child interaction |
Fletcher | 3, 5, 7 | 72 | - | normative data on British children collected in an interview setting |
Forrester | 1;0-3;2 | 1 | video | video study with CA coding |
Gathercole/Burns | 3;0-6;4 | 12 | - | cross-sectional data collection during a structured play session |
Howe | 1;6-1;8 1;11-2;1 | 16 | - | mother-child interaction during free play with data coded extensively for actions and situations at two time points |
KellyQuigley | 2;7-3;6 | 48 | audio | father-child book reading |
Korman | infants | 6 | audio | maternal speech interactions with preverbal infants |
Lara | 1;9-3;3 | 1 | - | longitudinal case study |
Manchester | 1;8-3;0 | 12 | audio | 12 English children recorded weekly for the period of a year |
MPI-EVA-Manchester | 1;8-3;2 | 4 | audio | dense sampling from four British children |
Nuffield | 0;11 | 76 | - | IDS Infant Directed Speech |
OdiaMAIN | 3-10 | 15 | audio | Odia-English bilinguals speaking English |
QuigleyMcNally | 0;4-1;2 | 40 | - | in ASDBank |
Sekali | 1-4 | 2 | video | brother and sister |
Smith | 2;2-3;0 | 1 | - | in PhonBank |
Thomas | 2;0.12-4;11.20 | 1 | audio | dense data collection |
Tommerdahl | 2;6-3;6 | 23 | video | study of verb tense usage during playtime |
Wells | 1;6-5;0 | 32 | - | large study of the language of British preschool children collected at random intervals |