CHILDES Japanese Corpora

This page provides an index to CHILDES data from Japanese.

You can also browse the Japanese database online from this link.

Researchers who are creating new Japanese corpora will find this set of transcription guidelines very useful.

In addition, they will find this list of special forms helpful.
Corpus Age Range N Media Comments
Hamasaki 2;0-3;4 1 - case study of a boy in Nagoya
Ishii 2-5 1 video case study of Takeo Ishii's son Jun
MiiPro 1;2-5;0 4 audio longitudinal studies of 4 Japanese children
Miyata 1;3-3;0 3 audio Ryo, Aki, and Tai, only audio for Tai
NINJAL-Okubo 1;0-4;0 1 - longitudinal diary study from 1974
Noji 0;0-7;0 1 - longitudinal diary study begun in 1948
Ogawa 0;9-6;1 2 - longitudinal diary study from 2011
Okayama 2;2-4;11 130 - children in the Osaka area
Ota 1;0-2;0 3 audio CHILDES and PhonBank
PaidoJapanese 2-5 85 audio in PhonBank
StanfordJapanese 0;10-1;3 6 audio in PhonBank
Yokoyama 1;1-3;0 1 - case study