Manual for media files

Mon Jan 13 18:55:39 UTC 2014

Misha,
    To achieve truth in packaging, I moved the unlinked bilingual media files to http://childes.talkbank.org/media/0unlinked/biling , noted in my message below.

—Brian

On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Becker, Misha K <mbecker at email.unc.edu> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. What I meant was, when I look in the database manual for the bilingual data it appears to just give information about the written transcripts, but it wasn't clear to me whether the files under Media were ALL the files from a given corpus (so, the sound files are there under Media and the corresponding written files are under Transcripts and all are present under both links) or whether only a subset of files were under Media, and if so, which ones.
> 
> But now I am actually more confused, because I am almost positive that on Friday when I was searching under Media (i.e. from the main webpage, clicking Media in the Database box) there was a lot more stuff there. I had listened to audio files from Deuchar and the FerFuLice corpora, but now they are not there and the list is quite short. Am I crazy or did this actually change over the weekend?
> 
> It seems that the stuff under Media is not exactly the same as linked media files in the transcript browser. For example, under Media there is a Perez directory which has two sound files from Alberto. But when you click on Perez within the transcript browser, none of Alberto's files show up with any linked media.
> 
> I hope my questions make sense. I feel like I am missing something very basic here!
> 
> Thanks again,
> Misha
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> Misha Becker
> Associate Professor
> UNC Linguistics Department
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> From: Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu>
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> Date: Friday, January 10, 2014 4:29 PM
> To: ChiBolts <chibolts at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: Manual for media files
> 
> Dear Misha,
>     The database guides  at http://childes.talkbank.org/manuals/ provide documentation about the corpora.  I am not sure what type of separate documentation one would have about media files.  Perhaps you are asking about how to know whether a given corpus has either linked audio or linked video.  In that case, one way to study this is to use the Browser at 
> http://childes.talkbank.org/browser/    If there is an icon with a speaker, then there is linked audio.  If there is an icon with a film clip, then there is linked video.   Sadly, for the bilingual corpora, most are missing both audio and video.  The exceptions are YipMatthews, MCF, Mandarin, and one of the Perez children.   In many cases, we have the audio and video, but it has not yet been linked.  For the bilingual files, you can go to http://childes.talkbank.org/media/0unlinked/biling and you will see audio and video that has not yet been linked for several corpora.
> 
> —Brian MacWhinney
> 
> On Jan 10, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Becker, Misha K <mbecker at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering if there is a manual or guide to the files under Media, the sound files. I didn't see one, but maybe I'm not looking in the right place. I'm specifically interested in a guide to the audio files under Biling/. Also, are there any video data for bilingual children available on the website? I'm going to be teaching a course on bilingualism next fall, so I was interested in some short video clips of children code switching for demonstration purposes.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Misha
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>> Misha Becker
>> Associate Professor
>> UNC Linguistics Department
>> 301 Smith Building, CB#3155
>> Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155
>> mbecker at email.unc.edu
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