In accord with the data management and Open Science standards of NIH/s
Office of Data Science strategy (ODSS) CHILDES data is available through
these three levels, as defined by ODSS. Specifically:
Open access: The web pages at https://childes.talkbank.org describing the
corpora and analysis programs such as CLAN, Chatter, and Batchalign are open with no access restrictions or
registration required.
Registration required: CHILDES transcript and media data on this
level are open to all, but users need to be signed in or registered. To
do this, users provide their email and create a password. They then
receive an email message asking them to confirm registration and then
they are registed. Once this is done, nearly all of CHILDES data are
available for access through download or browsing in the TalkBank
browser.
Controlled access: Controlled access requires verification of
requestor identity, committee approval of proposed research use, and
signing a data use agreement to access protected data. The newly created
GlobalTales narrative corpus is the only CHILDES transcript corpus that
requires this level of access. However, controlled access is also
required for the video (but not the transcripts) of the
DeHouwer/Bornstein, Koch, Leo, Rigol, Lund, Zlatev, and Nieva corpora.
To request access to one of these controlled data media resources, send a
description of your identity, professional status, and planned use to
macw@cmu.edu for further processing.