Tag: CHILDES
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Assignment 5 or “The Importance of Being Gephi”
As with Assignment 3, I utilized the CHILDES corpus of child speech in order to create the data-sets used in my visualizations displayed below. As before, the data I pooled from had already been separated into categories based off of the syntactical level of the speaker. The specific pool I utilized was from children of…
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Assignment 3: Networks and the Inter-Connectivity of Child Vocabulary
After my initial findings from assignment 2, I was curious to see what other conclusions could be drawn from my corpus of children’s speech. The most interesting finding from that assignment was the ability to plot the relative relation of individual word usage by both frequency and spatial relation. It became apparent from these findings,…
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Assignment 2: Delving into the words of a child
My corpus is comprised of data collected and stored as a part of the Child Languages Data Exchange System database a part of the TalkBank system of collected speech transcriptions. The database is maintained by Professor Brian MacWhinney at Carnegie Mellon University since the 1990s, and has become one of, if not the largest single…