adult-to-adult conversations in digital format?

Aliyah MORGENSTERN aliyah.morgenstern at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 14:03:17 UTC 2011


Great job!!! You are doing wonders! I mean it, the wizzard of language.
Best,
Aliyah

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

> Dear Aliyah,
>    With cooperation from Lorenza Mondada and Carole Etienne, we now have
> some of the French adult-adult Lyon ICOR corpora in CHAT format at
> http://talkbank.org/data/CABank/CLAPI.zip or the browsable version at
> http://talkbank.org/browser/ (and then browse to CABank/CLAPI
>
> -- Brian MacWhinney
>
> On Aug 8, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Aliyah MORGENSTERN wrote:
>
> This type of data is greatly needed in our community. I have never found a
> data base that I could use for the purpose of comparison with projects done
> using CHILDES. If only someone could imitate CHILDES and create
> ADULTS...(SHARING data, not using it only for one project).
> I would also greatly appreciate suggestions, English, but also other vocal
> languages and sign languages. There is some for French done by the lab ICAR,
> daily conversations, but you need special access for the data itself (
> http://clapi.univ-lyon2.fr/analyse_requete.php).
> Best,
> Aliyah Morgenstern
> Professor of linguistics
> Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle
>
> 2011/8/8 Virginia Valian <vvvstudents at gmail.com>
>
>> 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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