adult-to-adult conversations in digital format?

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Aliyah,

    You are right that a great deal of older recording of adult-adult conversations failed to use video. This is slowly changing.  A great example of the new wave is the SamtaleBank corpus of adult Danish created by Johannes Wagner within the context of the DK-CLARIN project.  Creating parallel corpora for other languages should be a goal for the future.  There are video corpora of the required type in the CA community, but people in that community have been reticent to share the relevant data. Another possible source of such data could be public broadcasting networks, if they could be convinced to open up data from talk shows and such.

-- Brian MacWhinney

On Aug 8, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Aliyah MORGENSTERN wrote:

> 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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