infant-directed child speech

[Brian MacWhinney]

Yes, John,  this is a good point.  Gordon Wells had some statistics
computed already in his 1981 (?) book on the overall nature of the
amount of input per day.  However, a downside of the Wells corpus is
that we don't have the original audio.  I wonder if it still exists.
I am copying this to Gordon Wells, just on the chance it might.

I am not clear that Margaret is asking about temporal distribution
patterns as much as the nature of the differences.  For that, the
Brent-Siskind corpus would also be excellent and it has linked audio.

--Brian MacWhinney

On Jun 15, 2005, at 12:59 PM, John Limber wrote:

> As someone suggested in response to another question recently, the
> Wells
> data set in CHILDES, with systematic radio sampling of a large
> sample of
> children over time can answer many important questions (within the
> limits of
> those British families included.)
> --
> John Limber
> Durham NH
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>> From: Margaret Fleck <mfleck at cs.uiuc.edu>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:40:35 -0500
>> To: <info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>
>> Subject: infant-directed child speech
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>> What's known about infant-directed child speech, e.g. as potential
>> input to
>> child language learners?   The amount of such speech presumably
>> varies
>> a lot.   However, when it occurs, it seems like it's very different
>> from either motherese or background adult-adult speech.
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>> Margaret Fleck
>> (U. Illinois)
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