two new corpora

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES,
     I am happy to announce the addition to CHILDES of two new  
corpora.  The first is the MOC corpus in the /clinical segment of the  
database.  The corpus was contributed by Ignacio Moreno-Torres and  
Santiago Torres Monreal of the University of Malaga and Rafael  
Santana of the University of Las Palmas.  This corpus is the first  
and only longitudinal study of a deaf child exposed to cued speech.   
The child (given the pseudonym Blanca) was observed between 18 and 24  
months, during the first 6 months of cochlear implantation.
    The second corpus is a study of subject ellipsis in Italian-Dutch  
bilingual children from ages 5 to 13.  This corpus was contributed by  
Antje van Oosten of the University of Utrecht.  The study uses  
picture descriptions to examine the use of subject ellipsis.  The  
results show a higher level of subject ellipsis in Dutch for these  
bilingual children than for Dutch monolinguals.
    Both corpora are described in greater detail in the database  
manuals for bilingual and clinical subjects.
    Many thanks to Ignacio and Antje for these very nice contributions.

--Brian MacWhinney, CMU