<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div><br></div>If the original is in Word (like the file Dan Slobin just circulated), then it<div>might be helpful to also post a plaintext version (if possible). That makes</div><div>the file(s) a lot easier to browse and is a necessary first step for reading it</div><div>with a computer program. Although I just produced myself *a* plaintext</div><div>version fairly quickly, it has issues (e.g. unwanted line breaks) that I suspect</div><div>a practiced Word hacker could avoid. </div><div><br></div><div>Margaret Fleck</div><div><br>--- On <b>Thu, 3/18/10, Brian MacWhinney <i><macw@cmu.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Brian MacWhinney <macw@cmu.edu><br>Subject: Re: adult frog stories in English<br>To: "CHILDES"
<info-childes@googlegroups.com><br>Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 1:32 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1681897243">Dan,<div> Several years back, I tried to put the Berkeley english into CHAT format. All of the corpora in CHILDES are in CHAT, so having a corpus that is not in that format makes it impossible to run CLAN programs on them. However, I think that it would make sense to have these data available in their original form and then people can go through them by hand or by using other programs. So, I will try to find a good place to post them on the web set. Many thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>--Brian</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 18, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Dan I. Slobin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<font size="3">Dear Barbara,<br><br>
I received a similar email and sent the student our corpus of adult
English frog stories. But I don't understand why the original
Berkeley frog story database is no longer on CHILDES.<br>
I've attached the entire corpus, as it used to appear on CHILDES, in the
hope that it can be re-posted for public access.<br><br>
Best,<br>
Dan<br><br>
At 12:01 PM 3/18/2010, Barbara Zurer Pearson wrote:<br>
</font><blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite=""><font size="2">Dear
Infochilds,<br>
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</font><font size="2">I am corresponding with a student (and her teacher)
in central China. She was very happy to learn of the link to
children's frog stories in English, but wonders if someone has any of
them--to share--from adults (or at least teenagers)?<br>
</font><font size="3"> <br>
</font><font size="2">I don't see any listed in the database manual on the
CHILDES site. Does anyone know of any that we could share with
her?<br>
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</font><font size="2">Thank you.<br>
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