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[Diane Pesco]

Hello,
Have you consulted this webpage?  http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/intro/
The article in AJSLP, powerpoint presentations, and audioclips of
interviews at that page should answer your questions.
The CHILDES and CLAN manuals also provide information, as does the
Handbook of Research in Language Development Using CHILDES (book) 
No flames!
Diane Pesco

Assistant Professor
Concordia University
dpesco at education.concordia.ca
514-848-2424 ext. 7338



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>Hello, I am a student of Phonetics at the Croatian Faculty of social
>sciences in Zagreb and I am writing an essay on CHILDES.
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>I apologize in advance if the following questions may seem odd or
>naive, but I am trying to understand the purpose of this database. I
>understand that people use it in their research of first language
>acquisition, as it is defined in the Wikipedia and other online
>articles I have viewed. But how does that data actually help a
>researcher? What does that researcher do with that data? While
>browsing randomly through the database I have viewed some clips and
>transcripts on it and it just seems like children talking with their
>parents, how does that help? What would a researcher have to do if
>CHILDES didn't exist? How would he or she conduct research without it?
>Mind you, I have never conducted any similar research so that is
>probably why the function of CHILDES eludes me, and my professor said
>I need to pay special attention to explaining its purpose. I know all
>these questions make me seem shortsighted and a complete layman, and I
>feel like I am going to be flameposted to a crisp :), but if anyone
>can answer them I would deeply appreciate it.
>Thank you in advance.
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