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Annota&onofChildLanguageCorpora:Acomparisonoftwomethodswithspecial

emphasisonbimodalbilingualdata

DianeLillo‐MarAn&DebbieChenPichlerSignLinguisAcsCorporaNetwork

Workshop3:AnnotaAonStockholm,Sweden14‐16June2010

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Acknowledgments•  Collaborators: RoniceMüllerdeQuadrosand

JulieHochgesang•  Warmthanksto:–  bimodalbilingualchildrenandtheirfamilies–  researchassistants

•  Financialsupportfrom:–  AwardNumberR01DC009263fromtheNaAonalInsAtuteonDeafnessandOtherCommunicaAonDisorders.ThecontentissolelytheresponsibilityoftheauthorsanddoesnotnecessarilyrepresenttheofficialviewsoftheNIDCDortheNIH.

–  TheGallaudetResearchInsAtute.–  CNPq(BrazilianNaAonalCouncilofTechnologicalandScienAficDevelopment)Grant#200031/2009‐0and#470111/2007‐0.

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Longitudinalstudiesofchildlanguage(childlanguagecorpora)

•  AddressawidevarietyofresearchquesAons•  Eachdatasetcanbeminedinmanyways

•  Complementsexperimental/cross‐secAonalstudynicely

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Challengesofconduc&ngchildlongitudinalstudies

•  Balancechild’scomfortzoneandneedforarepresentaAvesampleoflanguage

•  RequiresrealcreaAvitytocoaxarichandvariedsampleoutofchild–  InvestinAme,gettoknowchildandfamily,learnwhatgetsthemtalking/signing

– Thinkingonyourfeettofollowthechild’sleadandexpandonwhatthechildsays

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Collabora&vestory‐telling•  Ben051(2;07)

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Challengesofconduc&ngchildlongitudinalstudies

•  Letchilddowhatshewants,yetmakesurethatcondiAonsaremaximizedforlatertranscribability– MonitorambientlighAngandsound

– Filmchildinroomswithoutplacestohideortoomuchoff‐cameraspace

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Datacollec&oninthedark

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•  SAL002(1;08)

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Technologicaltools•  JIL019(2;02)

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Drawbacksoflongitudinalspontaneouscorpora

•  MacWhinney’s(2001)three‐headedmonsterofcorpustranscripAon:– Lackofstandardformat+rapidproliferaAonofalternaAveformats

–  Indeterminancy•  Difficulttodeterminewhatwasreallysaid/signed

– Tedium•  Highlylabor‐intensive,conAnuallysubjecttorevisionandexpansion

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CHILDES:ChildLanguageDataExchangeSystem

•  Startedintheearly1980’sbyBrianMacWhinneyandCatherineSnow(withothers)

•  Goal:tosharechildlanguagedata•  Method:– Developcomputersomwareforstoringandsearching

– DesignconvenAonscompaAblewiththesomwareandteachtheseconvenAons

–  Convinceresearchers(over100)todonatetheirdata

– Makethedatafreelyavailableontheinternet10

CHILDES–MainPoints

•  Threemaincomponents:– CLAN–ComputerizedLanguageAnalysis

– CHAT–CodesfortheHumanAnalysisofTranscripts– Database(33languages)

•  AddiAonalcomponents– Groundrules– Guidelinesforcontributors– …

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CHILDES

hPp://childes.psy.cmu.edu/

• System

• ProgramsandDatabase

• Links• Manuals

• PhonologyandFonts• TeachingwithCHILDES• SpecialPopulaAons• MorphologyandLexicon• Mirrors

• Contact

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CHILDES‐Outcomes

•  MajorchangeinmanyareasoflanguageacquisiAonresearch– QuanAtaAve,systemaAc,widerrange

•  Over3000arAclespublishedbasedonCHILDESdata(asof2008)

•  Over1millionhitstowebsite(early2010)

•  ConAnuingaddiAonofdata,increasingtypes

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SampleCHATtranscript@SituaAon:CHIislookingatapicturebookwithMOT*CHI: xxxfour.*CHI: Iseefour[/]Iseefouryyy.%pho: ki:kæ*CHI: one#two#three+…%act: poinAngtopicturebook*MOT: thosearebunnies.*MOT: whatis[//]whatarethebunniesdoing?*CHI: sleeping[?].%pho: sipi%com: Altsheadtooneside,couldbegestureforsleeping*CHI: it’sdarkout[=?darker]%pho: da:kou*MOT: yes,it’sAmeforbed.*CHI: goodnightbunnies!

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Systemsfornota&onofchildsign

•  Mostchildsignresearchersusevariantsofsystemsdevelopedforadultsigning– Baker,vandenBogaerdeandWoll(2005)discussmanyimportantgeneralconsideraAons

– Morgan(2005)–DynamicSpaceTranscripAon– Takkinen(2005)–HamNoSys

– Slobinetal.(2001)–BTS(BerkeleyTranscripAonSystem)

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Ourgoals

•  AdopAonofIDglossing(Johnston1991)–  TranscripAonfocusisonannotaAngsignlemmas

•  TranscripAoninELAN–  TranscriptprovidesconsistentinformaAon,sufficientforcomputerizedsearching–  BasictranscripAonavoidsanalysisasmuchaspossible– Analysisbyresearcherslater,usingtranscriptandvideo(unlikeCHILDES,whereanalysisalmostalwaysbasedontranscriptalone)

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MLSSA:Mul&‐LanguageSignandSpeechAnnota&on

•  ConvenAonalizednotaAonandprocedurescrucialformakingtri‐universitycollaboraAonpossible(Bibibiproject–BinaAonalBimodalBilingualstudyoflanguageacquisiAon)

•  Specificallydesignedtoaccommodatebimodaldata– speechandsignareannotatedindependently– bimodalismisidenAfiedatanalysislevel

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MLSSAProceduralconven&ons

•  LabmanagertrainstranscribersandassignsandtracksprogressiveaddiAonstotranscripts,recordedinonlinelogsaccessibletoallprojectmembers

•  Wetranscribespeechfirst,asitomenhelpsusidenAfyaccompanyingsigns

•  Proofing•  Coding/Analysis

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MLSSANota&onalconven&ons:ComparisonwithCHILDES

•  MELISSAadoptsmanyCHILDESconvenAons,butwithslightmodificaAonsdueto:– RequirementsorcapabiliAesofELAN– ConvenAonsspecifictosignlanguageglossing

ASLuPerance: g(hey)SEEFOUR[/]SEEFOURYYY

FreetranslaAon: ‘hey…Iseefour,Iseefour[garbled]’ IX(book)#FOURDOG[?] ‘Therearefourdogsthere’ DOG[+]DV(sit‐in‐a‐line) ‘Thedogsarelyinginaline’

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UseofMLSSAforresearch

•  Sample:BEN_029(2;01),00:00:25–00:00:59•  Transcribedandcodedfortwoprojects.

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Exporta&onofanalysis&erstoExcel

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CurrentandfutureresearchChenPichler,Deborah,Quadros,RoniceMüllerde,&Lillo‐MarAn,Diane(2009).EffectsofBimodalProducAon

onMulA‐CyclicityinEarlyASLandLibras.BostonUniversityConferenceonLanguageDevelopment.Boston,MA;November2009.InJaneChandlee,KaAeFranich,KateIserman,&LaurenKeil(Eds.),ASupplementtotheProceedingsofthe34thBostonUniversityConferenceonLanguageDevelopment,April2010.hPp://www.bu.edu/linguisAcs/BUCLD/supp34.html.

ChenPichler,Deborah,Hochgesang,Julie,Lillo‐MarAn,Diane&Quadros,Ronice(2010).ConvenAonsforSignandSpeechTranscripAoninChildBimodalBilingualCorpora.Language,Interac3onandAcquisi3on1.1,11‐40.SpecialissueguesteditedbyMarie‐AnneSallandreandMarionBlondel.

Lillo‐MarAn,Diane,ChenPichler,Deborah,&Quadros,RoniceMüllerde(2009).BestPracAcesforBuildingaBi‐modalBi‐LingualBi‐NaAonalCorpusofChildLanguage.WorkshoponSignLanguageCorpora:LinguisAcIssues;London,UK;July2009.

Lillo‐MarAn,Diane,Quadros,RoniceMüllerde,Koulidobrova,Helen&ChenPichler,Deborah(2009).BimodalBilingualCross‐LanguageInfluenceinUnexpectedDomains.GeneraAveApproachestoLanguageAcquisiAon;Lisbon,Portugal;September2009.[Proceedingstoappear;CambridgeScholarsPress]

Quadros,RoniceMüllerde,Lillo‐MarAn,Diane,&ChenPichler,Deborah(2010).TwoLanguagesButOneComputaAon:Code‐BlendinginBimodalBilingualDevelopment.TobepresentedattheconferenceonTheoreAcalIssuesinSignLanguageResearch;WestLafayePe,IN;October2010.

Quadros,RoniceMüllerde,Lillo‐MarAn,Diane,Koulidobrova,Helen,&ChenPichler,Deborah(inprogress).ConstraintsonCross‐LanguageInfluence,Code‐Switching,andCode‐Blending.

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languageacquisiAonstudies.SignLanguage&Linguis3cs8:1/2,7–58.Johnston,T.(1991).TranscripAonandGlossingofSignLanguageTexts:ExamplesfromAustralian

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Morgan,Gary(2005).TranscripAonofchildsignlanguage:AfocusonnarraAve.SignLanguage&Linguis3cs8:1/2,117–128.

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Takkinen,Ritva(2005).SomeobservaAonsontheuseofHamNoSys(HamburgNotaAonSystemforSignLanguages)inthecontextofthephoneActranscripAonofchildren’ssigning.SignLanguage&Linguis3cs8:1/2,97–116.

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