Collections of children's fictional narratives ('told' stories)

[Phyllis Schneider]

Hello,

I have a corpus of stories from 377 children aged 4-9 which were elicited
using a set of original pictures drawn to our specifications by a
cartoonist.  You can see the materials on my website,
www.rehabresearch.ualberta.ca/enni.  there were 50 typically developing
children in each 1-year interval plus 10-17 children with language
impairment in each.  The children generated stories based on the pictures;
it was not a retell task.   I am planning to donate the corpus to CHILDES
at some point but have not done so yet.  the corpus is already a part of
the SALT databases in which individual transcripts can be compared to data
from the ENNI.

Have a look at the website to get an idea of the task.  If you would like
to use the pictures for your pilot, you are welcome to do so.  If you want
to use the stories that children told, I would be happy to share some or
all of them with you.  I have them in both CHAT and SALT formats.

--Phyllis

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On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Gordon Ingram <gordoning at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi everyone,
>
> Some colleagues and I are hoping to start a project in the nearish future
> which will involve the collection of children's original (fictional)
> narratives as part of the requirements-gathering process for a piece of
> software aimed at helping children improve their creative writing skills. I
> plan to share any resulting corpus with the scientific community.
>
> Does anyone know of a collection of original fictional narratives - i.e.,
> not 'retold' fairytales and the like - which is easily available on the
> internet, for us to do a pilot study on? I am vaguely aware of Ruth Berman
> and Dan Slobin's 'frog stories', some of which I think are available in
> CHILDES, and will have a look at them; but ideally I would like something a
> bit more accessible (i.e. without all the linguistic annotation, as we will
> probably need to strip that out in order to have it analysed by AI) - and
> perhaps something written by kids rather than spoken.
>
> Age range would be about 6-12 - though we could go older if necessary.
> Something on autistic children's production of fictional narratives would
> also be really useful; doesn't have to be a corpus in this case, even an
> article or two would help.
>
> Best regards,
> Gordon
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