Childes Porgram

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Nazan,
     It is possible to convert data from EXMARaLDA into CHAT and  
backwards.  Both programs are great, although CLAN is a bit more tuned  
for the details of child language -- particularly analyses like MLU,  
morphology and so on.  To convert out of EXMAR, you use the CHAT  
segmentation.  Thomas Schmidt can
help you, if you have problems there, but make sure you use a current  
version of EXMARaLDA.
Once your data are in CHAT, you can go back to EXMAR using the  
CHAT2XMAR program.

--Brian

On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Nazan Gueltekin wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> my name is Nazan Gültekin and I am a postgraduate at the University  
> of Bielefeld/Germany. Within my dissertation I collected quasi- 
> natural speech data from children with migration background (4-6  
> years old), who have German as their second language. The analysis  
> will be about syntactical, morphological and lexical development. I  
> planned to analyze my data manually.
> Lately I discovered the program Childes, but till now I have  
> trancribed about one third of my data with the Transcription Program  
> Exmaralda  (in total 390 datasets). I have to make a decision, but  
> now I ask myself whats "the best way". There is nobody around to  
> ask, who uses the Childes program, so I want to ask you all about  
> your experience with this program, because I don´t have much time to  
> finish my dissertation. What do you think, how much time do I have  
> to investigate to learn Childes (Chat, Clan) accordingly?
> I am looking forward for your answer. Thank you very much.
> Nazan


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