Database, Core: Linguistics and CHILDES

The Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) promotes sharing of transcript data and shared standards for transcription and documenting using computerization. It built on a history of sharing child language transcript data established by Roger Brown, adding automation of analysis and procedures for compiling data across sets of transcripts. The CHILDES database now encompasses corpora in 26 languages, corpora of bi- and tri-lingual children, of children and adults with language disorders, and elicited narrative. A successor system, TalkBank, offers digitized audio and video records, web-enabled access, and richer coding capacities to language researchers.