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The Child Language Data Exchange System: an update

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Brian MacWhinney  and
Catherine Snow
Brian MacWhinney*
Affiliation:
Carnegie Mellon University
Catherine Snow
Affiliation:
Harvard University
*
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
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Abstract

In a previous issue of this Journal, MacWhinney & Snow (1985) laid out the basic sketch for an international system for exchanging and analysing child language transcript data. This system – the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) – has developed three major tools for child language research: (1) the CHILDES database of transcripts, (2) the CHAT system for transcribing and coding data, and (3) the CLAN programs for analysing CHAT files. Here we sketch out the current shape of these three major tools and the organizational form of the CHILDES system. A forthcoming book (MacWhinney, in press) documents these tools in detail.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 1990 , pp. 457 - 472
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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