<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hello,<br><br></div>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, <a href="http://www.rehabresearch.ualberta.ca/enni">www.rehabresearch.ualberta.ca/enni</a>. 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. <br>
<br></div>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.<br>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Gordon Ingram <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gordoning@gmail.com" target="_blank">gordoning@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi everyone,<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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