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(More customer reviews)This work was originally sponsored by the Macarthur Foundation. It shows how CHILDES arose as a means of storing data from studies of children's linguistics, and a means of accessing that data for further analysis.
The book is a user's manual for CHAT and CLAN. CHAT describes the transcription and coding format for how the data is gotten and stored. While CLAN encompasses the analysis engine. Keep in mind that the book was written in 1995. The graphical interface is very minimal. Mostly text based. But for researchers, this should be adequate, at least in 1995.
The statistical tools are also rather rudimentary. Nothing like the richness in SAS or Maple. But you can output data in various file formats that should be understandable by other packages.
One might wonder. Have CHILDES, CHAT and CLAN be upgraded in the intervening years to provide a richer graphical environment?
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Volume I is the first of two volumes that document the three components of the CHILDES Project. It is divided into two parts which provide an introduction to the use of computational tools for studying language learning. The first part is the CHAT manual, which describes the conventions and principles of CHAT transcription and recommends specific methods for data collection and digitization. The second part is the CLAN manual, which describes the uses of the editor, sonic CHAT, and the various analytic commands. The book will be useful for both novice and experienced users of the CHILDES tools, as well as instructors and students working with transcripts of child language. Volume II describes in detail all of the corpora included in the CHILDES database. The conversational interactions in the corpora come from monolingual children and their caregivers and siblings, as well as bilingual children, older school-aged children, adult second-language learners, children with various types of language disabilities, and aphasic recovering from language loss. The database includes transcripts in 26 different languages. The CD-ROM that accompanies these volumes includes the transcript files described in Volume II. It runs on both Windows and Macintosh platforms. For more information or updates to the files, visit the CHILDES website at http://childes.psy.cmu.edu
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