adult bilingual corpus (Chinese-Hungarian)

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES,
  I am happy to announce the addition of another corpus of adult second
language acquisition data to CHILDES.  This corpus was collected in Hungary
by Juliet Langman of the Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the
Universtiy of Texas at San Antonio.  The corpus can be found in langman.sit
and langman.zip in the /bilingual directory of CHILDES.  Following is the
documentation for the corpus.

--Brian MacWhinney


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This corpus is made up of 10 files consisting of interviews conducted in 1994
with 11 Chinese immigrants living in Hungary. The bulk of the conversation is
in Hungarian, although in the case of those who speak English there is also
English, and in the case of one transcript (KIN10) there are significant
amounts of Chinese (with a Hungarian translation in a %tra dependent tier).
Interviews focused on issues related to their arrival in Hungary as well as
their daily life activities. With the exception of KIN2 and KIN10 none of the
subjects had had formal training in Hungarian. Interviewers were the
researcher, as well as three different Hungarian undergraduates. Data were
collected with two purposes in mind: the analyses of communicative strategies
among adult second language learners learning in a non-structured
environment, and the analysis of the acquisition of morphology of an
agglutinative language.