CHILDES Spanish Nieva Corpus


Silvia Nieva
Departamento de Psicología Básica II
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Participants: 1
Type of Study: longitudinal, naturalistic
Location: Spain
Media type: video
DOI: doi:10.21415/T5W305

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Citation information

Casla, M; Murillo, E; Nieva, S, Rodríguez, J; Méndez- Cabezas, C, Rujas, I. (2023) Verbal and more: multimodality in adult’s and toddlers’s spontaneous repetitions. Language Learning and Development, 19(1), 16-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2021.2008939

Casla, M., Méndez-Cabezas, C., Montero, I., Murillo, E., Nieva, S., & Rodríguez, J. (2022). Spontaneous verbal repetition in toddler-adult conversations: a longitudinal study with Spanish-speaking two-year-olds. Journal of Child Language, 49(2) 266-301. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000921000015

Casla, M., Nieva, S., Murillo, E., Moreno, R., Rodríguez, J., & Méndez-Cabezas, C. (2021). The role of spontaneous verbal repetition sequences as shared discourse in early linguistic development (Las secuencias de repetición verbal espontánea como formas de discurso compartido en el desarrollo lingüístico temprano). Journal for the Study of Education and Development/Infancia y Aprendizaje, 44(2),1-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/02103702.2021.1889289

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Project Description

Project

Data were collected for Silvia Nieva’s PhD dissertation carried out under the direction of Susana López Ornat (Complutense University) and Sonia Mariscal (UNED), with the support of a Complutense Grant (2007-2011)- This work has been part of the EMERGRAN international project. “The emergence of grammaticality in children: cognitive, linguistic and conversational factors” (2007-2011) Main researcher: Edy Veneziano, CNRS., Paris. ANR: Agence Nationale de la Recherche , France Nº. BLAN06-1-135249

EMERGRAM members: E. Veneziano (IP), CNRS, Paris, France; USA researchers in English: Eve Clark, E. Herr-Israel, Ann Peters, Lorraine McCune. Researchers in French: A. Morgenstern, E. Mathiot, C. Shimanek, C. Rossi, Parisse. Researchesr in Spanish: C. Rojas Nieto (México) y S. Lopez Ornat, S. Nieva (UCM, Equial).

The corpus

An audio-visual corpus has been collected involving regular sessions of natural interaction of Mendía, a monolingual middle class girl living in Madrid (Spain), whose mother tongue is European Spanish. Data were further transcribed into CHAT format files. The recordings were made between June 2006 and January 2007 (see Table 2) in the context of playing with objects and reading illustrated books for children.

Data were recorded with a video camera SONY DCR-HC27 Mini DV at the girl’s home who was accompanied by one of her regular caregivers (mother, father or aunt). The whole corpus contains 32 sessions, corresponding to 21.5 hours of recording. The duration of the recording sessions was an average of 43 '20''.

The sessions have been transcribed orthographically, and include extra-linguistic information (gestures, actions and vocalizations). Transcriptions were verified by a second observer.

General information and Further Development

First born and only child.
Born at term.
Birth weight: 11, 23 pounds
The girl didn’t suffer from any major illnesses or ear infections.
She went to the crèche when she was 16 weeks old, 6 hours per day.
No contact with other languages.
Parents with higher education college degrees coming from:
Mother: Madrid (Spain) (more than 50,000 inhabitants).
Father: Salamanca (Spain) (more than 50,000 inhabitants)

The mother reported that the girl has acquired language development milestones and psychomotor skills within standard percentiles.

The girl was given a test screening of global linguistic performance the PLON-R: Language Oral Test of Navarra (Aguinaga, Armentia Fraile, Olanga and Uriz (2004), at 4;3 years of age to verify her language development was within regular standards. In addition, she was recorded at the age of 4;6 to proof that the little girl had regular lexical and grammatical developments.

Furthermore, a follow-up of her communicative-linguistic development has been carried out from the very start of the recording sessions up to 30 months through parental reports of the Spanish adaptation of MacArthur CDI (Lopez Ornat, Gallego, Gallo, Karousou, Mariscal and Martinez (2005). General information is included in Table 1.

Table 1. Follow-up of MacArthur CDI
MENDÍA / Mac Arthur CDI mother's reports
DateAGEVOCALIZATIONS PERCENTILVOCABULARYMORPHOLOGY PERCENTILMLU (CDI)PERCENTIL MORPHOSYNTAX
1- CDI17-JUN-061;8P 8091 (P45)P 851 (P35)P 50
2- CDI20-NOV-062;1P65256 (P55)P402.5 (P40)P35
3- CDI30-JAN-072;3P70509 (P85)P653.5 (P55)P90
4- CDI20-APR-072;6P50544 (P85)P355 (P50)P80

Table 2. The corpus.
MENDÍA / Birth Date: 14-OCT-2004
FILEDATEAGELENGTHINTERVALADULT
01.cha17-JUN-06201;08.30:30:290 MOT
02.cha23-JUN06201;08.900:38:326 MOT
03.cha02-JUL-06201;08.180:33:109 MOT
04.cha10-JUL-06201;08.2600:29:208 AUN
05.cha14-JUL-06211;09.000:30:094 MOT
06.cha22-JUL-06211;09.800:32:368 MOT
07.cha28-JUL-06211;09.1400:32:236 MOT
08.cha05-AUG-06211;09.2200:16:498 MOT
09.cha10-AUG-06211;09.2700:35:265 MOT
10.cha17-AUG-06221;10.300:49:307 MOT
11.cha24-AUG-06221;10.1000:50:028 MOT
12.cha01-SEPT-06221;10.180:38:327 MOT
13.cha08-SEPT-06221;10.2500:56:517FAT
14.cha15-SEPT-O6231:11.100:47:117 MOT
15.cha22-SEPT-06231;11.800:45:127 FAT
16.cha29-SEPT-06231;11.150:45:137 MOT
17.cha06-OCT-06231;11.2200:45:197 MOT
18.cha13-OCT-06231;11.2900:44:547 FAT
19.cha20-OCT-06242;00.61:00:037 AUN, FAT
20.cha27-OCT-06242;00.1300:47:127 MOT
21.cha03-NOV-06242;00.2000:53:367 MOT
22.cha13-NOV-06242;00.3000:47:0510MOT
23.cha21-NOV-06252;01.800:51:378 AUN
24.cha27-NOV-06252;01.1400:47:526 MOT
25.cha05-DEC-06252;01.2200:46:188 MOT
26.cha11-DEC-06252;01.2800:49:096 MOT
27.cha19-DEC-06262;02.500:49:008 MOT
28.cha26-DEC-06262;02.1200:50:387 FAT
29.cha03-JAN-07262;02.2000:45:038 MOT
30.cha10-JAN-07262;02.2700:46:377 FAT
31.cha17-JAN-O7272;03.300:44:277 MOT
32.cha23-JAN-07272;03.900:47:066 FAT

Acknowledgements

Data were collected for Silvia Nieva’s PhD dissertation carried out under the direction of Susana López Ornat (Complutense University) and Sonia Mariscal (UNED), with the support of a Complutense Grant (2007-2011)- This work has been part of the EMERGRAN international project. “The emergence of grammaticality in children: cognitive, linguistic and conversational factors” (2007-2011) Main researcher: Edy Veneziano, CNRS., Paris. ANR: Agence Nationale de la Recherche , France Nº. BLAN06-1-135249

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The author kindly requests form anybody using this corpus to send a copy or brief of any research involving the use of any data belonging to the above mentioned corpus.