CA Data

This page provides an index to TalkBank CA data. These files include both traditional CA ("Heritage") transcripts and transcripts in the newer CA/CHAT format. All of the materials referenced here are naturalistic conversations amenable to CA analysis. To download the corpus, click on the link in the Corpus column. To download the media, click on the link in the Media column.

We use stars to rate the extent to which the transcripts capture detailed conversational phenomena. Transcripts with only one star have not yet been transcribed in CA, but include interesting materials that could eventually be transcribed in CA format.

Corpus	Description	Media	Rating
CallFriend	Phone calls in English, Spanish, French, and Japanese	CallFriend	**
GailBank	Classic transcriptions by Gail Jefferson, along with newer Watergate materials. Password protected with access available from jwa@sdu.dk	GailBank	*****
SBCSAE	The Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English. A wide variety of interactional types.	SBCSAE	****
SCoSE	The Stuttgart Corpus of Spoken (American) English	SCoSe	*
JOC	Eight conversations from a special issue of the Journal of Communication	JOC	*
MOVIN	Conversations in Danish, German, French, English, and Italian	MOVIN	***
Classroom	A wide variety of videotaped classroom lessons and work group interactions	Classroom	*
CMU	Conversations collected by students at CMU. These can only be used for teaching purposes.	CMU	*
Grimshaw	An hour-long dissertation defense	Grimshaw	*
LIDES	Six corpora from multilingual groups engaged in code-switching.	LIDES	**