This page provides an index to the CHILDES Narrative data, other than the extensive Frog Story data .
These corpora are all contained in the folders for the
individual languages involved.
| Corpus
| Age Range
| N
| Comments |
| Catalan
|
| GRERLI
| 9, 12, 17, adult
| 80
| Spencer project narratives for Catalan and Spanish |
| Chinese
|
| ZhouNarratives
| -
| -
| Hungry caterpillar and Robbers |
| Chang2
| 3,6
| 12, 12
| narrative completions |
| Croatian
|
| MAIN
| 5-63
| 143
| MAIN protocol |
| Dutch
|
| Asymmetries
| 4;3-6;5, 6;2-12;1, 6-12 (ADHD)
| 31, 38, 37
| picture descriptions in Dutch, adults are in CABank |
| English
|
| ENNI
| 4-9
| 400
| Reference database for comparing TD and SLI children's narratives |
| Gopnik
| 2-5
| 61
| story book descriptions |
| Hicks
| 1st, 2nd, 5th grade
| 20, 18, 5
| a range of narratives |
| Nicolopoulou
| 3-5
| 49
| Story telling and acting across years |
| PetersonMcCabe
| 3;6-9;6
| 96
| elicited personal narratives |
| French
|
| VionColas
| 7, 9, 11
| 63, 64, 64
| picture descriptions in French |
| Portuguese
|
| Batoreo
| 5-47
| 60
| picture book descriptions |
| Spanish
|
| Shiro
| 6-9
| 113
| narratives from Venezuelan children |
| CrossLinguistic
|
| MacBates1
| 3, 4, 5, adult
| 30, 30, 30, 30
| cross-sectional study using a picture description task in English, Italian, and Hungarian |
| MacBates2
| 3, 6, 10, adult
| 76, 53, 44, 103
| film description task |
