CHILDES English McCune Corpus


Lorraine McCune
Psychology
Rutgers University

Participants: 10
Type of Study: naturalistic
Location: USA
Media type: video
DOI: doi:10.21415/T5G59J

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Project Description

This corpus is based on videotapes collected by Lorraine McCune from 10 children ages 9-24 months, and again at 31 36 months in the 1980s. Mothers are seated on the floor with their children and the same toys are used each month. These videotapes were later digitized and Lorraine and her students have linked video through 24 months for 3 so far: Alice, Jase, and Rick. In 2026, a complete new collection of transcripts was created using ASR. However, the original transcripts for the three children and a few additional can be found here. The birthdates of the ten children are as follows: