adult-to-adult conversations in digital format?

[Aliyah MORGENSTERN]

Dear Brian
TALKBANK is absolutely great, you are right, but I might be wrong, I don't
find I can directly compare with the kind of data we have in CHILDES
including the fact that I need the videos. Then again, it is a big problem
to film adults as naturally as we do children, apart from dinner
conversations which I find work pretty nicely.

2011/8/8 Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu>

> Dear Virginia, Aliyah, and John,
>
>      We have a huge collection of adult-adult speech in TalkBank.,
> contributed from many projects. All TalkBank data are encoded in CHAT, just
> as in CHILDES.  The URL is http://talkbank.org.  The largest segment is
> the SCOTUS database with 50 years of oral arguments from the Supreme Court.
>  We also have CallHome and CallFriend corpora from several languages, the
> full Santa Barbara corpus, the Nixon Watergate phone calls, the famous
> Newport Beach corpus, and so on and so on.  Altogether, TalkBank is the
> largest open corpus of adult-adult conversation.
>
> -- Brian MacWhinney
>
> On Aug 8, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Virginia Valian wrote:
>
> Dear CHILDES community,
>
> I am looking for adult-to-adult conversations, in American English (so the
> BNC is out), that have been transcribed and are in digital format.  I want
> to compare adult-to-adult speech with adult-to-child speech.  CHILDES (thank
> you, Brian) gives us thousands of hours of adult-to-child.  I don't need
> *thousands* of hours of adult-to-adult but I would like several hours of
> normal conversation.  Hence, I do not want very short routine phone
> conversations.  Nor do I want academic conversations, including
> student-to-student conversations about difficult topics like DNA.  CoCA is
> not usable because one can only search it, not download whole
> conversations.  Suggestions will be gratefully received either via this list
> or to me at virginia.valian at hunter.cuny.edu
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Virginia Valian
> Distinguished Professor
> Department of Psychology, Hunter College
> PhD Programs in Linguistics, Psychology, and Speech-Language-Hearing
> Sciences, CUNY Grad Center
> vvvstudents at gmail.com
>
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