The Childes Project

The Childes Project
Author :
Publisher : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Total Pages :
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1563211882
ISBN-13 : 9781563211881
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Childes Project by : Brian MacWhinney

Download or read book The Childes Project written by Brian MacWhinney and published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language research thrives on data collected from spontaneous interactions in naturally occurring situations. However, the process of collecting, transcribing, and analyzing naturalistic data can be extremely time-consuming and often unreliable. This book describes three basic tools for language analysis of transcript data by computer that have been developed in the context of the "Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES)" project. These are: the "CHAT" transcription and coding format, the "CLAN" package of analysis programs, and the "CHILDES" database. These tools have brought about significant changes in the way research is conducted in the child language field. They are being used with great success by researchers working with second language learning, adult conversational interactions, sociological content analyses, and language recovery in aphasia, as well as by students of child language development. The tools are widely applicable, although this book concentrates on their use in the child language field, believing that researchers from other areas can make the necessary analogies to their own topics. This thoroughly revised 2nd edition includes documentation on a dozen new computer programs that have been added to the basic system for transcript analysis. The most important of these new programs is the "CHILDES" Text Editor (CED) which can be used for a wide variety of purposes, including editing non-Roman orthographies, systematically adding codes to transcripts, checking the files for correct use of "CHAT," and linking the files to digitized audio and videotape. In addition to information on the new computer programs, the manual documents changed the shape of the "CHILDES/BIB" system--given a major update in 1994--which now uses a new computer database system. The documentation for the "CHILDES" transcript database has been updated to include new information on old corpora and information on more than a dozen new corpora from many different languages. Finally, the system of "CHAT" notations for file transcript have been clarified to emphasize the ways in which the codes are used by particular "CLAN" programs. The new edition concludes with a discussion of new directions in transcript analysis and links between the "CHILDES" database and other developments in multimedia computing and global networking. It also includes complete references organized by research topic area for the more than 300 published articles that have made use of the "CHILDES" database and/or the "CLAN" programs. LEA also distributes the "CLAN" programs and the complete "CHILDES" Database--including corpora from several languages and discourse situations--described in "The CHILDES Project." Be sure to choose the correct platform (IBM or Macintosh) for the "CLAN" programs; the "CHILDES" Database CD-ROM runs on both platforms.


The Childes Project Related Books

The Childes Project
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Brian MacWhinney
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-02-01 - Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Language research thrives on data collected from spontaneous interactions in naturally occurring situations. However, the process of collecting, transcribing, a
Salt & Time
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Alissa Timoshkina
Categories: Cooking
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-18 - Publisher: Interlink Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

NEW IN PAPERBACK! A collection of delicious modern recipes from Siberia and beyond Salt & Time will transform perceptions of the food of the former Soviet Union
Dysphagia Assessment and Treatment Planning
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors:
Categories: Deglutition disorders
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Half the Sugar, All the Love
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Jennifer Tyler Lee
Categories: Cooking
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-24 - Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Less sugar in every meal. Would you feed your child a candy bar for breakfast? Of course not. And yet today our children routinely consume three times the recom
Muslims of the World
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Sajjad Shah
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-09 - Publisher: Abrams

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

We are living in a time of unrest for many members of the Islamic faith around the globe. Enter Muslims of the World, a book based on the popular Instagram acco