TalkBank

Collaborative Commentary

To start up CC, you first start up the TalkBank browser. You can do this by clicking on this link or you can click on one of the links called "Browsable Database" from the home page of any one of the 14 separate TalkBanks. Once you have started the TalkBank Browser, you can click on the blue button in the upper right of the window and it will start CC.

You may find it most useful to learn CC by first reading the CC manual and viewing the screencasts that describe CC functions.

You can also refer to this article on CC:

Fromm, D., & Kowalski, J. (2024). Collaborative commentary: A new and innovative tool for language commentary and analysis. Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 44, 41-54. https://doi.org/10.32038/ltrq.2024.44.06

Illustrations

This page illustrates the use of CC for annotating transcriptions in AphasiaBank, TBIBank, and RHDBank. These tasks were used by a group of colleagues and their research staff to learn how to use CC.

This page illustrates the use of CC for annotating transcriptions in CHILDES. It was used as an assignment in a class at CMU.

This page illustrates the use of CC for annotating transcriptions in AphasiaBank. It was used as an assignment in a class at Indiana University by Brielle Stark, Ph.D..