CHILDES SYSTEM OVERVIEW - BASIC -

1. CHILDES SYSTEM OVERVIEW- BASIC -

2. 1. What is CHILDES? Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

5. Child System Exchange Data Language

6. CHIldLanguageDataExchangeSystem Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

7. 2. Why we need CHILDES? Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

8. Because….. You want to study what I say You want to investigate languages (Photo source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/klapow/203398273/)

9. CHILDES provides Tools for studying conversational interactions

10. 3. Who started CHILDES? Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

11. Found in 1984 Concord MA Department of Psychology,Carnegie Mellon University

12. The team Contact macw@cmu.edu ProgrammersLeonid Spektor Franklin Chen DirectorBrian MacWhinney

13. members 4,500

14. corpora 130

15. published articles 1,500

16. 4. Why we need a lot of data with CHILDES? Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

17. We needs LOTS of DATA. WHY? Universals and Differences Photo source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvy/69385239/ Photo source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvy/69385239/

18. 5. Where is CHILDES? Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

19. http://childes.psy.cmu.edu visit CHILDES website at

21. 6. How can I get the latest info of CHILDES? Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

22. Subscribe to the CHILDES Mailing Lists now!

23. 7. What are the tools provided by CHILDES? Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

24. The CHILDES system provides tools for studying conversational interactions, including Programs for transcript analysis Transcript database Methods for linguistic coding Systems for audio and video linking

25. 8. What related software do I need? Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

26. Quicktime player Adobereader Unicode fonts: Arial FixedSys Winzip BEFORE installing, you should have To read the media files To view the Manual To unzip the corpus To display the characters

27. Download unicode fonts - STEP ONE

28. Download unicode fonts - STEP TWO

29. Download unicode fonts - STEP THREE

30. 9. Where is the CHILDES program? Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

31. The program available at CHILDES is called CLAN

32. Download CLAN

33. ClanX + ClanXu UnixClan ClanWin 4 versions are available  versions  No longer supported

34. 9. I want to install CLAN to my Windows. HOW ? Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

35. updated frequently download new version Download CLAN at ” Program and Database ” Section. Getting Started @ Windows (Photo Source : http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanaka/49602421)

36. Double click the *.exe file downloaded and follow the instructions given by InstallShield After Download (Photo Source : http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanaka/49602421)

37. 10. I have CLAN now. What should I do? Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

38. CHAT Transcript System:How to record the conversation in a standard format at CHILDES. CLAN Program Manual:How to use the CLAN program Download the Manual for details

39. 11. I just want to study the available language database.How? Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

40. Click Database to download the Corpus from around the world

41. View the corpus using WebData You can download the corpus and run the transcript in your local machine in this page. 1. Unzip the corpus into folders 2. Use CLAN program to open the *.CHA files. TWO ways to view the data

42. Download the audio and video files here and place them in the same folder of the transcripts.. Download the bilingual corpus here. Local Transcripts

43. On Window, right click the mouse >> save target as >> choose the directory for this zip file. On Mac, click the link and it will save automatically. e.g. Download YipMatthews bilingual corpus

44. Unzip the downloaded corpus by right click the mouse >> extract here Unzip the corpus files (Photo Source : http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanaka/49602421)

45. Unzip the corpus files 1. After extraction, folders, which contains *.cha under names of children being investigated, will place inside a folder. 2. Each folder contains *.cha files, which are transcripts of the bilingual children. (Photo Source : http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanaka/49602421)

46. This is a transcript in CHAT format (*.cha file)

47. %mor=morphological tier, list parts of speech “n” is NOUN, “PL” is plural, so “friends” is a plural noun FAT=Father, he is saying “what’s bear doing?” CHI=children, saying “writing a letter, letter” Zoom inside a transcript

48. Download the Manual for more

49. 12. How can I read transcripts together with audio & video files? Photo source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/740583 ; royal free under usage option

50. 2. Open the CHA file Click Mode >>Sonic Mode>>Locate the audio file. 1. Put the corresponding audio and *.cha files in the same folder 4. Either use Esc+8 OR Click Mode >> Continuous playback 3. Audio Wave of the sound file will pop up inside the CLAN window. Playback with audio file (Photo Source : http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanaka/49602421)