Trinity College Second Language Studies

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES,
     I would like to announce the addition to TalkBank of a new  
corpus of transcripts from school-aged
children learning French as a second language in France.   The  
project, designed and implemented by Seán Devitt, School of  
Education, Trinity College, Dublin, set out to track the development  
of the means of expressing temporality by children learning French as  
a second language in France. The subjects were five children, aged  
between eight and twelve, of three different nationalities Irish,  
Polish and Cambodian who were in primary school in Paris in the early  
part of 1982. The data were gathered over a five-month period from  
March 31 to September 6 1982.
     This corpus is included in the TalkBank SLA corpora at http:// 
talkbank.org/data in the SLA directory.  However,
because these are still children, the data are also relevant to the  
study of child language acquisition.
     Many thanks to Seán for contributing this corpus.

--Brian MacWhinney, CMU