ABSTRACT
Corpus Age Range N Comments
Beers on page 176
4;0-6;0 15 impaired
Cross-sectional study of phonological-ι ly impaired monolingual Dutch-speak-| ing children
Bliss on page 184
3:0-ll;8 2;3-ll ;8
8 normal 7impaired
Cross-sectional study of language-dis ordered children from different ages along with a normal comparisons group
B o l / Kuiken on page 185
4;1.16-8;1.17 20 Cross-sectional study of the morphosyntax of Dutch children with specific language impairment (SLI)
CAP on page 188
English 25-71 yrs German 31-81
yrs Hung 18-76yrs
12 20 24
Cross-sectional study of English, Ger man, and Hungarian aphasics along with normal controls. A l l of the aphasic participants had left lateral lesions
! Conti1 Ramsden 1 j on page 194
4;0-9;0 5 Cross-sectional study of British SLI children and their younger M L U - matched siblings
ContiRamsden 2 on page 200
l ; l l - 5 ; 8 7 Cross-sectional study of British SLI children and their younger M L U - matched siblings
Feldman on page 204
4 sets of twins
Longitudinal study that examines the language development in twin sets with one suffering perinatal brain inju ry
Flusbergon page 211
Longitudinal study of language devel opment in children with autism and j Down syndrome
Fujiki / Brinton on paee 212
24 -77 years 42 Cross-sectional study of adults living in a residential setting with 2 conversa tional language samples elicited from each participant
Hargrove on page 214
3;0-6;0 6 Cross-sectional study with interviews between a speech therapist and chil dren with SLI
1 7 4
1 7 5 C l i n i c a l C o r p o r a
Table 54: Clinical Corpora
Corpus Age Range Ν Comments
Holland on page 2.15
19-93 Longitudinal study of early language recovery following a stroke
Hooshvar on page 218
1;4-2;11 3;2-ll ;6
1 2;8-5;9
40 normal 31 Downs 21 impaired
Cross-sectional study of language interactions between mothers and their nonhandicapped children, mothers and
their Down syndrome children, and mothers and their language-impaired
children
1 Leonard on page 225
3;8-5;7 Cross-sectional study of specifically language-impaired (SLI) children
L e w on page 226
Longitudinal study of Hebrew children with various developmental and/or
medical disorders. A normal control population is included in this corpus
Malakoff / Maves on page 227
2;0-2;22 7 6 46 children exposed to cocaine in utero and 22 control children, each
sampled once
Oviedo on page 232
2 One SLI child and Williams Syndrome child, both speakers of Spanish
Rollins on page 234
2;2-3;l 5 Young boys with autism interviewed by a clinician
Rondal on page 237
3;0-12;l 21 Downs 21 con-
trols
Cross-sectional study; Examines how mothers talk to their children with
Down syndrome. Uses a comparison group of mothers talking with their
normal children
Ulm on page 242
3;0-7;5 Longitudinal study of the development of stuttering in childhood. The tran
scribed language is not standard Ger man but a Swabian dialect
trols
1 7 6 C l i n i c a l C o r p o r a — Beers
Meike Beers Institute for General Linguistics Spruistraat 210 1012-VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands mieke@alf.let.uva.nl
The data in these files were collected by Meike Beers and were originally used in Beers (1995). The data presented to CHILDES formed the input to a computer program which performed phonological analyses at the segment and the feature level of all consonants, vowels, and consonant clusters. These input files have been transformed into C H A T format by Steven Gillis and Masja Kempen from the University of Antwerp. The phonologically impaired children who took part in the project are described below. The data files and a description of the normally developing Dutch children from the same project can be found in the directory of Dutch corpora. General information on the selection, segmentation, and transcription of the items in the data files are similar for both groups of children.