The CHILDES Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk (third edition): Volume I: Transcription format and programs, Volume II: The database

By Brian MacWhinney. 2000

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science & Psychology, Linguistics

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How Can We Accelerate Progress Towards Human-like Linguistic Generalization? (2020, background): “To make stronger contact with the human language acquisition literature, a leaderboard could compare models on their ability to learn various linguistic generalizations from the CHILDES repository of child-directed speech (MacWhinney, 2000).”
Cognitive Science in the era of Artificial Intelligence: A roadmap for reverse-engineering the infant language-learner (2016, neutral): “…now, the response of the scientific community has been dichotomous: either make everything public (as in the open access repositories like CHILDES, MacWhinney, 2000), or completely close off the corpora to anybody outside the institution that has recorded the data (as in the Riken corpus, Mazuka,…”
The prosodic bootstrapping of phrases: Evidence from prelinguistic infants (2003, methodology): “An example produced by the mother in the first Eve file from the Brown corpus (Brown, 1973; CHILDES database, MacWhinney, 2000) is ‘‘Oh, dolly s other shoe is on her foot’’ (Eve 01), and other such examples exist.”
Transcriber: Development and use of a tool for assisting speech corpora production (2001, methodology): “A version of Transcriber has been produced that can read, edit and write transcripts in the CHILDES format (MacWhinney, 2000).”
Same language, different functions: A cross-genre analysis of Chinese EFL learners’ writing performance (2016, methodology): “The measures for frequency of long words, academic vocabulary, and VocD were automatically generated using the CHILDES programs (MacWhinney, 2000).”
Beyond babytalk: Re-evaluating the nature and content of speech input to preverbal infants (2007, background): “1 For further discussion on this topic, see two recent comprehensive debates in The Linguistic Review (2002) and Journal of Child Language (MacWhinney, 2004 and following replies). 502 M. Soderstrom / Developmental Review 27 (2007) 501–532”
The development of Dutch connectives : change and acquisition as windows on form-function relations (2005, methodology): “4 Longitudinal study of Dutch In order to settle the debate on the acquisition order of the three domains, I examined longitudinal data from twelve very young Dutch children in the corpus of the CHILDES Project (MacWhinney 2000).”
Structural and Lexical Case in Child German: Evidence From Language-Impaired and Typically Developing Children (2006, background): “…on direct and datives on indirect objects) would be unaffected and that children with SLI would perform at the same level of accuracy and produce the same kinds of errors as TD children, for example, overapplications of structural cases to items that require lexical case in the adult language.”
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.”