new video corpus

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES,

     On the occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival through China (September
28),  I am happy to announce the addition to CHILDES of a new video
corpus from Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews, and Uta Lam at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong.  This corpus tracks the language development
of the highly photogenic Alicia from 1;9 to 3;6.  One set of 38
transcripts, all linked to the video, traces her development in
Cantonese and another set of 38 transcripts from the same time period
traces her development in English. Three other files represent the
code-mixing or switching of Cantonese and English.  These files can be
located for browsing at

http://xml.talkbank.org:8888/talkbank/file/CHILDES/Biling/YipMatthews/

The relevant directories are AliciaCan, AliciaEng, and AliciaMixed.
The zip files of the transcripts are in
http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/data/biling/YipMatthews.zip.
The video files themselves are at
http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/data/video/YipMatthews/

This is the first child in the ever-growing YipMatthews corpus with a
full video record.  Charlotte, Kathryn, and Llywellyn have complete
audio but only Alicia has complete linkage to video.  However, audio
files for Alicia and the other children are also available at
http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/data/audio/YipMatthews/

Many thanks to Virginia and Stephen for this wonderful and entertaining
new resource.

And Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to everyone!

--Brian MacWhinney