TalkBank

Data Access Levels

CHILDES data is available through these three access levels, as defined by NIH's Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS):

1. Open access: The web pages at https://childes.talkbank.org describing the corpora and analysis programs at https://talkbank.org such as CLAN, Chatter, and Batchalign are open with no access restrictions or registration required.
2. Registration required: CHILDES transcript and media data are open to all, but users need to sign in and register. To do this, users provide their email and create a password. They then receive an email message asking them to confirm registration. Once this is done, nearly all of CHILDES data are available for access through download or browsing in the TalkBank browser.
3. 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.