CHILDES Catalan Serra/Solé Corpus

	Miquel Serra miquel.serra@ateneu.ub.edu	Rosa Solé
Vincent Torrens Psychology U.N.E.D. vtorrens@psi.uned.es

Participants:	10
Type of Study:	longitudinal, naturalistic
Location:	Spain
Media type:	video
DOI:	doi:10.21415/T58W3N

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Project Description

The Serra–Solé longitudinal study includes 10 children. Five are monolingual Catalan, four are bilingual Catalan-Spanish, and one is monolingual Spanish. The Spanish-speaking child (#10) is included in the Spanish directory. The other children are in the Catalan directory. The children were videotaped monthly from 1 to 4 years of age from 1986 to 1989. They were videotaped at their homes in spontaneous interaction with a familiar adult, usually the mother, in sessions of 30 to 45 minutes. All the children belong to middle-class families. The research project is entitled “Language acquisition in Catalan and Spanish children” and is directed by Miquel Serra (Universitat de Barcelona) and Rosa Solé (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona).

Monolingual Catalan children

Participant Name Date of Birth Age Range Sessions Sex
Alvar xxxDOB 1;02.28-3;01.13 20 M
Gisela xxxDOB 1;07.14-4;02.03 9 M
Guillem xxxDOB 1;00.00-4;00.00 14 M
Laura xxxDOB 1;07.20-4;00.10 7 F
Pep xxxDOB 1;00.27-3;06.21 31 M

Bilingual Catalan-Spanish children

Participant Name Date of Birth Age Range Sessions Sex
Antoni xxxDOB 1;04.01-3;00.24 23 M
Caterina xxxDOB 1;01.17-4;03-21 18 F
Josep Andreu xxxDOB 0;10.01-4;00.03 24 M
Marti xxxDOB 0;10.14-4;00.13 24 M

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The authors would appreciate receiving a copy, or a summary, of any work using the corpus.

Acknowledgements

This research project has received support from the Spanish research council (Grants DGICYT PB84/0455; PB89/0317; PB91/0851; PB94/0886). The research assistants of the project have been: Montserrat Cortés, Connie Schultz, Elisabet Serrat, Vicens Torrens, and Melina Aparici. Cristina Vila and Montse Capdevila have collaborated in different stages of it.