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General description

Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) is part of the TalkBank corpus, including language transcript data from aphasics, classroom language learning, conversation analysis, and second language acquisition. CHILDES is mainly used for analyzing young children's language and adult speech directed to children.

Related publications

• How known constructions influence the acquisition of other constructions: the german passive and future constructions
• There is no evidence for a 'no overt subject' stage in early child Spanish: a note on Grinstead (2000)
• A comparative study of the phonology of pre-school children with specific language impairment (SLI), language delay (LD) and normal acquisition
• Influence of phonology on morpho-syntax in Romance languages in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
• A comparative study of the phonology of pre-school children with specific language impairment (SLI), language delay (LD) and normal acquisition
• Phonological profile of Spanish-Catalan children with specific language impairment at age 4: are there any changes over time?
• Measuring productive vocabulary of toddlers in low-income families: concurrent and predictive validity of three sources of data
• Training 2;6-year-olds to produce the transitive construction: the role of frequency, semantic similarity and shared syntactic distribution

Data access

More information about CHILDES can be found at https://childes.talkbank.org/