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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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Gordon<br>
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