Child Speech and Child-Directed Speech

The SANTOS & TONI_FDC Corpus and the SANTOS & TONI_FI Corpus are composed of a frequency list that quantifies the words in child speech (FI) and child-directed speech (FDC). These words come from longitudinal, naturalistic recordings of the database coordinated by Prof. Raquel Santana Santos, PhD, having been processed with the aid of Python scripts by Benevides & Guide (2016).

For now, biweekly data from three children from São Paulo have been compiled (Am: 1;10–4;0 years; Ar: 2;0–4;11 years; Lz: 1;7–5;6 years) and from their mothers and other caregivers, totaling 273 orthographic transcriptions (about 136 hours of speech).

The corpora data feature the following annotations:

Illustrative image of the SANTOS & TONI_FI and SANTOS & TONI_FDC Corpus
  • Orthographic word;
  • Lemma;
  • Morphological category;
  • Phonemic transcription;
  • Phonological transcription (demarcated stress);
  • Syllabic structure;
  • Stress classification;
  • Frequency in tokens.

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How to cite:

SANTOS & TONI_FI CORPUS: database prepared by SANTOS, R.S. and TONI, A. (2020). Available at: http://leal.fflch.usp.br/Corpora-FI-FDC. Accessed on XXX.

SANTOS & TONI_FDC CORPUS: database prepared by SANTOS, R.S. and TONI, A. (2020). Available at: http://leal.fflch.usp.br/Corpora-FI-FDC. Accessed on XXX.