[Corpora-List] Where can I find a English for Children corpus?

[Nathan Hu]

Hi Michael,

Very interesting resource. I will analysis this corpus deeply.

Actually, I believe the machine learning process for natural language should
follow the way of human children. I may find some clew in this corpus.

Thanks you.
Nathan

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Michael Israel
<michael.israel at gmail.com>wrote:

> Nathan,
>
> You may be right that children's English is not itself the best input for
> children learning English, but  CHILDES includes many transcripts from
> in-depth longitudinal studies of acquisition, and these include both what
> the children say, and what is said to them. Indeed, in many transcripts the
> majority of words spoken come from adults and are directed to children.
> There is also a great deal of research based on this data showing that the
> words and grammatical constructions which children learn are in many (but
> not all) respects highly correlated with the frequency with these occur in
> the spoken input that the children hear. So, CHILDES might be more relevant
> than you think.
>
> regards,
> Michael
>
>
>
> 2011/3/10 Nathan Hu <nathan3dvrlab at gmail.com>
>
> Dear Grzegorz,
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> However, the children's English is different from English for
>> children. Children's English does not easily to learn.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nathan
>>
>> 2011/3/10 Grzegorz Chrupała <gchrupala at lsv.uni-saarland.de>
>>
>> Dear Nathan,
>>>
>>> The CHILDES database contains transcript of conversations between
>>> young children and their playmates and caretakers in a number of
>>> languages: http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/data/ . It is spoken rather than
>>> written language but may still suit your needs.
>>> --
>>> 'gʒɛgɔʃ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 23:31, Nathan Hu <nathan3dvrlab at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi All,
>>> > In my research, I believe the automated learning system need to start
>>> from
>>> > simple text like human child.
>>> > Where can I find a large simple English corpus such as stories for
>>> children?
>>> > Thank you.
>>> > Nathan
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