The wheat and the chaff
Or four confusions regarding CHILDES
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20367909 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Macwhinney (0000-0002-4988-1342, Carnegie Mellon University, corresponding author), Catherine E Snow (0000-0002-6292-1126, Harvard University Press), Catherine Snow |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 459-471 |
| Publication date | 1992-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000900011491 |
| PMID | 1527211 |
| OpenAlex | W2025087387 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Edwards (1992) presents a set of examples from the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) as prototypes of bad transcription practice. Her discussion is based upon four basic confusions. First, Edwards confuses old and discarded versions of CHAT with current CHAT. Second, she confuses the relation between CHAT standards with the implementation of these standards during the process of reformatting older corpora. Third, she confuses transcription for automatic analysis with transcription for documentation. Fourth, she confuses the CHAT guidelines with the larger CHILDES system. We argue that these confusions have misled Edwards into developing an overly rigid set of principles for data analysis which, if followed literally, could choke off progress in the analysis of spontaneous language samples
Cognitive science · Documentation · Linguistics · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.09 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2010 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |