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From: mickey@saathi.ncst.ernet.in (R Chandrasekar)
Subject: Re: desperately need ascii transcripts of "baby" talk
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Walter Rolandi (rolandi@andy.hssc.scarolina.edu) wrote:
: 
: hello,
: 
: i am looking for transcripts of baby talk conversations. you know,
: mommy-daddy-baby chatter.  the actual content is less important than
: the age of the child when the transcript was made.

You could take a look at the CHILDES corpora.
CHILDES is the Child Language Data Exchange System.

There is data in several languages, including English, German,
Tamil etc etc. Plus a whole set of tools.

Send mail to Professor Brian MacWhinney at CMU 
     (brian+@andrew.cmu.edu)
for details.

Regards,

  -- Chandrasekar
	 NCST, Bombay

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