Re: Corpora: Question from the University of Padua

Dan I. SLOBIN (slobin@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU)
Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:11:05 -0800 (PST)

The CHILDES archive of child-language corpora is located at:
http://poppy.psy.cmu.edu/childes/database.html

-Dan Slobin
Dept of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley

On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, James L. Fidelholtz wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Silvia Drago wrote:
> [snip]
> >... Is there anyone working on
> >children's corpora at the moment?
>
> There is a relatively large corpus in various languages, principally of
> children's discourse, called CHILDES, maintained at Carnegie-Mellon U.
> in Pittsburg (?) by Brian McWhinney and others. Many of the subcorpuses
> are fairly heavily annotated for syntactic, pragmatic, phonological,
> etc. information, with a home-grown but useful annotation system (and,
> since it's in ASCII, fairly easily translatable). I don't have their
> address, but any search engine ought to find their home page for you.
> Jim
>
> James L. Fidelholtz e-mail: jfidel@siu.buap.mx
> Maestri'a en Ciencias del Lenguaje
> Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
> Beneme'rita Universidad Auto'noma de Puebla, ME'XICO
>
>