Research Equipment

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Pam,
     For suggestions regarding digital video, you may wish to consult
http://www.talkbank.org/dv/
For suggestions regarding digital audio and microphone technique, you
may wish to consult
http://talkbank.org/da/
    For software to transcribed interviews, you may wish to consider
CLAN, SALT, and TransAna.
Also, regarding the issue of sharing your data with other researchers,
please consult
http://talkbank.org/share

--Brian MacWhinney

On Sep 17, 2004, at 3:29 PM, Pam Norton wrote:

> Hello all,
>    I am preparing to do a research study in a public
> school setting looking at African American children
> who speak AAVE, the public school assessment process,
> and the speech pathologists who conduct them.  It will
> be a qualitative study in which I will both be
> interviewing speech pathologists about their
> assessment practices and observing them assessing
> African American children.  I would like to both
> videotape and audiotape them.  I plan to use a laptop
> to record my own observations at the school sites and
> data regarding the interviews.  I would like to get
> suggestions about equipment (I also have a desktop, so
> any suggestions on that would be welcome too), from
> hardware specifications on the laptop, to software
> that could be useful for transcribing interviews as
> well as language samples of the children.  I'm sure
> this is a big topic but any references and/or
> experience would be very welcome.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Pam Norton, M..S., CCC-SLP
> Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education at
> San Francisco State and UC Berkeley
>