The CHILDES project: tools for analyzing talk

By Brian MacWhinney. 1992

Subfields: Computational Linguistics & Semantics, Linguistics

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How Can We Accelerate Progress Towards Human-like Linguistic Generalization? (2020, neutral): “speech (MacWhinney, 2000).”
On the importance of normative data in speech-based assessment (2017, methodology): “Each speech sample was recorded and manually transcribed at the word level following the CHAT protocol [14].”
Articles, adjectives and age of onset: the acquisition of Dutch grammatical gender (2008, methodology): “6 The counts are based on Dutch adult- and child-directed speech in three CHILDES corpora, that is, the Groningen corpus, the Van Kampen corpus, and the Bol and Kuiken corpus (MacWhinney, 2000).”
How Language Proficiency Tests Mislead Us about Ability: Implications for English Language Learner Placement in Special Education (2006, background): “3 Details regarding the CHILDES Project are available online at http://childes.psy.cmu. edu/ and in MacWhinney (2000).”
Maternal correlates of growth in toddler vocabulary production in low-income families. (2005, methodology): “Longitudinal studies of children’s observed language production have historically focused on single cases or on small groups of children (e.g., Brown, 1973; see also MacWhinney, 2000).”
Learnability and the Statistical Structure of Language: Poverty of Stimulus Arguments Revisited (2004, background): “, and even “While you’re sleeping, shall I make the breakfast?” all of which are from CHILDES (MacWhinney, 2000)1, and presumably instances of structures which are not overly rare in child-directed speech.”
Mothers' and Fathers' Use of Internal State Talk with their Young Children (2008, methodology): “The transcripts were examined using the CLAN (computerized language analysis) program (MacWhinney, 1991).”
Maternal speech to infants at 1 and 3 months of age (2005, background): “Interestingly, this new and more speech-like quality of infant vocalizing is perceived by adults as more communicative and likely influences their vocal responsiveness (Beaumont & Bloom, 1993; Masataka & Bloom, 1994).”
Poverty of the Stimulus? A Rational Approach (2006, methodology): “The corpus consists of the sentences spoken by adults in the Adam corpus (Brown, 1973) in the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000).”
Usage‐Based Language: Investigating the Latent Structures That Underpin Acquisition (2013, methodology): “We searched for these separately in the child language and the CDS using CLAN (MacWhinney, 2000a) searches targeted on the %mor part-of-speech tagged tier.”
Math talk during informal learning activities in Head Start families (2015, methodology): “All speech from the caregiver and child during the interaction was transcribed verbatim at the level of the utterance by reliable transcribers from the videos using the CHAT conventions of the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES, MacWhinney, 2000).”
Bootstrapping language acquisition. (2017, methodology): “Bootstrapping language acqu Using our incremental learning algorithm, the learner is trained on utterances from the Eve corpus (Brown, 1973; Brown & Bellugi, 1964) in the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000), with meaning representations produced automatically from an existing dependency annotation o”
The Influence of Dominance and Sociolinguistic Context on Bilingual Preschoolers' Language Choice (2007, methodology): “The videotapes were transcribed according to the conventions of the CHAT system from CHILDES (MacWhinney, 2000; childes.psy.cmu.edu) by the second author.”
A COGNITIVE/FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE ACQUISITION OF "CLASSIFIERS" (2003, background): “Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.”
Vocabulary skills of Spanish—English bilinguals: impact of mother—child language interactions and home language and literacy support (2010, methodology): “The audiotapes of the book-sharing interactions from 50 mother–child dyads were transcribed using standard transcription conventions, and were coded and analyzed using the programs available through the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES; MacWhinney, 2000).”