CHILDES Global Tales Corpora

This page provides an index to the Global TALES (GT) personal narrative data. These corpora all used the Global TALES protocol (Westerveld et al., 2022) to elicit personal narratives. The protocol can be downloaded from this OSF link.

Global TALES is a database dedicated to providing corpora of personal narratives elicited using the GlobaTALES protocol. Access to the data is password protected and restricted to members of the Global TALES Network. Researchers and clinicians who are interested in joining the Network should read the TalkBank Ground Rules nd then send an email to m.westerveld@griffith.edu.au
Corpus Location N Type Contributor
Cantonese Hong Kong 20 DLD, 36 TD Angel Chan
Malay Malaysia 21 TD Tzepeng Wong
Mandarin Nanjing 41 adolescents, 42 children Wanlin Zhu
Westerveld Australia 33 TD Marlien Westerveld

Project Description

The @G: markers for the six tasks are: happy, confused, angry, proud, problem, and important.