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[Orangeman]

Thank you for turning my attention to the AJSLP article on that page,
which I didn't notice before. I have downloaded the Powerpoint
presentations when I first visited that page, but I wasn't paying
attention to the bottom of it because of those japanese letters, mea
culpa :).
Thank you again for your help.

Best regards from the good old Europe,
Davor Gajić




On Jan 5, 3:58 pm, "Diane Pesco" <dpe... at education.concordia.ca>
wrote:
> Hello,
> Have you consulted this webpage?  http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/intro/
> The article in AJSLP, powerpoint presentations, and audioclips of
> interviews at that page should answer your questions.
> The CHILDES and CLAN manuals also provide information, as does the
> Handbook of Research in Language Development Using CHILDES (book)
> No flames!
> Diane Pesco
>
> Assistant Professor
> Concordia University
> dpe... at education.concordia.ca
> 514-848-2424 ext. 7338
>
> info-childes at googlegroups.com on January-05-11 at 7:36 AM -0500 wrote:
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> >]Purpose of CHILDES?
> >Orangeman <david.orange... at gmail.com> Jan 05 03:39AM -0800 [
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> >Hello, I am a student of Phonetics at the Croatian Faculty of social
> >sciences in Zagreb and I am writing an essay on CHILDES.
>
> >I apologize in advance if the following questions may seem odd or
> >naive, but I am trying to understand the purpose of this database. I
> >understand that people use it in their research of first language
> >acquisition, as it is defined in the Wikipedia and other online
> >articles I have viewed. But how does that data actually help a
> >researcher? What does that researcher do with that data? While
> >browsing randomly through the database I have viewed some clips and
> >transcripts on it and it just seems like children talking with their
> >parents, how does that help? What would a researcher have to do if
> >CHILDES didn't exist? How would he or she conduct research without it?
> >Mind you, I have never conducted any similar research so that is
> >probably why the function of CHILDES eludes me, and my professor said
> >I need to pay special attention to explaining its purpose. I know all
> >these questions make me seem shortsighted and a complete layman, and I
> >feel like I am going to be flameposted to a crisp :), but if anyone
> >can answer them I would deeply appreciate it.
> >Thank you in advance.
>
> >*puts on asbestos suit*
>
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