CHILDES Polish Szuman Corpus

Magdalena Smoczynska Department of General Linguistics Jagiellonian University ulsmoczy@vela.filg.uj.edu.pl website

Stefan Szuman (1889-1972) Department of General Linguistics Jagiellonian University website

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Citation information

Smoczynska, M. (1985). The acquisition of Polish. The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition. D. I. Slobin. Hillsdale, N. J., Erlbaum: 595-686.

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Project Description

These data were collected by Szuman and his students at the University of Krakow in the years following World War II. In most cases, the children were studied by their parents, many of whom were graduate students in developmental psychology, working with Szuman. In many cases, the public library of Krakow preserves additional materials on this project, including photographs, related treatises by Szuman, and examples of the children’s artwork. Magdalena Smoczynska computerized the Szuman notebooks and contributed her transcripts to CHILDES. The ages of the 10 children are given in the following table.

The files have @G gems labelled Episode 2, Episode 3, etc., rising sequentially across the files. Partway through the Jas subfolder, the convention changes to also include a letter, as in Episode A.790.

Child	Birthdate	First Session	Last Session
Basia	12-DEC-1952	1;5	7;9
Inka	-	0;10.0	7;7
Jadzia	-	4;1.0	5;1.0
Janeczek	-	4;2.0	7;3.0
Jas’	3-JUL-1947	0;11.0	6;6.0
Kasia	17-DEC-1957	1;3.0	3;11.0
Krzys’	14-MAR-1943	2;0.0	3;0.0
Michal	19-JAN-1949	2;0.0	6;8.0
Piotrus’	22-FEB-1943	2;0.13	2;9.0
Tenia	16-APR-1955	1;5.0	2;0