Japanese CHILDES data

[Susanne Miyata]

Dear Linda, dear Kazumi,

there is already an 1998 update of the 'CHILDES manual for Japanese',
as well as a JCHAT CD-ROM (also v.1998) containing Japanese data in both
romaji and Kana (which may give you an idea how to transcribe),
as well as a MOR lexicon for Japanese and a Wakachigaki-guideline.

for more information please have a look at our homepage, as Kazumi suggested,
http://jchat.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/jchat/
and/or contact me personally,

sincerely,
-- Susanne Miyata <smiyata at asjc.aasa.ac.jp>



At 10:56 1999.02.04, Kazumi Matsuoka wrote:
> Dear Dr. Cote-Reilly,
>
> You might find the 'CHILDES manual for Japanese' (Oshima-Takane and MacWhinney,
> 1995) helpful.  We used this manual and the most recent edition of CHIDES manual
> (MacWhinney 1995) when we began to transcribe Japanese data at the University of
> Connecticut.  I am not sure if the hard-copy of the Japanese manual is still
> available, but I believe you can download it from the following Web page;
>
> http://jchat.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/jchat/
>
>     We used Hepburn Roma-ji for the transcription, but the JCHAT group should be
> able to give you information about computer program which can convert Japanese text
> into Roma-ji format.  Your transcriber would appreciate being able to use Japanese
> font.  Using Kanji also reduces the problem of distinguishing homophonous words.
>     The Web page is set up by the JCHAT project group.  It is a group of
> researchers who use the CHILDES system to analyze Japanese data.  You might want to
> join the group (no fee) and find some helpful information for your research.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Kazumi Matsuoka, Ph.D.
> Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
> University of Memphis
> Campus Box 526430
> Memphis, TN
> 38152-6430 USA
> Phone: 901-678-3163
> Fax: 901-678-5338
>
> Cote, Linda (NICHD) wrote:
>
> > Dear fellow CHILDES subscribers:
> >
> > I am looking for advice/guidelines from researchers who have used CHAT and
> > CHILDES with Japanese-language material, and people who have used bilingual
> > material where the two languages used different alphabets/character sets (e.g.,
> > English and Japanese).
> >
> > (My situation is this:  I have some Japanese-English bilingual data that needs
> > to be transcribed.  We have Japanese-English bilingual researchers in our lab
> > who can do the transcription, I'm just not sure of the mechanics, "how" they
> > will do it.)