phonetically transcribed CDS

[Dan I. Slobin]

I'd suggest that "word" isn't the proper level of analysis.  Much of 
everyday talk is made up of formulas, cliches,
lexicalized phrases--or whatever you want to call them.  Why is it 
important for you to use what is probably an
artificial unit, even for normal adult language?  As for "didjano," 
I'd guess it's a single unit.

Dan


At 07:08 AM 12/5/2006, JAN R EDWARDS wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>While we are on the subject of CDS, I have a question also.
>We are working on developing CDS lexicons for several languages
>(English, Greek, Cantonese, Japanese).  Because we are interested
>in phoneme frequency and phoneme sequence frequency, we need
>to phonetically transcribe and segment the mother's (or other
>caregiver's) speech.  This turns out to be somewhat complicated
>in the case of CDS, because we have to make decisions about
>where the word boundaries should be for infants.  For example,
>how many words in "didja know..."  Is anyone else working
>on this or similar questions in English or other languages?
>
>Yours,
>Jan

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