TalkBank
Encyclopedia
TalkBank is a multilingual corpus
established in 2002 and currently directed and maintained by Brian MacWhinney
. The goal of TalkBank is to foster fundamental research in the study of human and animal communication
. It contains sample databases from within several subfields of communication, including first language acquisition
, second language acquisition
, conversation analysis
, classroom discourse
, and aphasic
language. It uses these databases to advance the development of standards and tools for creating, sharing, searching, and commenting upon primary linguistic materials via networked computers.
TalkBank contains CHILDES
(Child Language Data Exchange System), a corpus of first language acquisition data.
Speech corpus
A speech corpus is a database of speech audio files and text transcriptions.In Speech technology, speech corpora are used, among other things, to create acoustic models ....
established in 2002 and currently directed and maintained by Brian MacWhinney
Brian MacWhinney
Brian James MacWhinney is a Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and the neurological bases of language, and he has written and edited several books and over 100 peer-reviewed...
. The goal of TalkBank is to foster fundamental research in the study of human and animal communication
Communication
Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...
. It contains sample databases from within several subfields of communication, including first language acquisition
Language acquisition
Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive, produce and use words to understand and communicate. This capacity involves the picking up of diverse capacities including syntax, phonetics, and an extensive vocabulary. This language might be vocal as with...
, second language acquisition
Second language acquisition
Second-language acquisition or second-language learning is the process by which people learn a second language. Second-language acquisition is also the name of the scientific discipline devoted to studying that process...
, conversation analysis
Conversation analysis
Conversation analysis is the study of talk in interaction . CA generally attempts to describe the orderliness, structure and sequential patterns of interaction, whether institutional or in casual conversation.Inspired by ethnomethodology Conversation analysis (commonly abbreviated as CA) is the...
, classroom discourse
Discourse
Discourse generally refers to "written or spoken communication". The following are three more specific definitions:...
, and aphasic
Aphasia
Aphasia is an impairment of language ability. This class of language disorder ranges from having difficulty remembering words to being completely unable to speak, read, or write....
language. It uses these databases to advance the development of standards and tools for creating, sharing, searching, and commenting upon primary linguistic materials via networked computers.
TalkBank contains CHILDES
Childes
Childes may refer to:*Childe's Tomb , Dartmoor, England*CHILDES, or Child Language Data Exchange System, a database of child language...
(Child Language Data Exchange System), a corpus of first language acquisition data.