Q: phonetic transcriptions of personal nouns -- database?

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Luca,
    I'm not sure I can help you with the personal names, but maybe it  
would be useful for me and others
to learn a bit also about how this phonetic transcription was  
composed.  Did the creators take the current CHILDES
corpora and then just run them through the MAKEMOD program using  
CMULEX (available on the server).  Or did they
do something different.  If they did additional work and/or cleaned  
up missing pieces of CMULEX and its output, then
it would be good to make their results available more widely.  Many  
thanks.

--Brian MacWhinney

On Sep 29, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Luca Onnis wrote:

> Hallo,
> I am trying to get a phonetic transcription of personal nouns,  
> especially in English (e.g. Sarah, Mike, etc.). This is because I  
> and some colleagues obtained a phonetic transcription of the  
> Childes corpora, but I am missing all those nice names. Is there an  
> available database with personal nouns and their transcription?
> I will post a list of replies to this list.
>
> please cc: to lo35 at cornell.edu
>
> Grazie,
>
> Luca Onnis
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