CHILDES Global Tales Corpora

This page provides an index to the Global TALES 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.

You can also browse the Global Tales corpora online from this link.

Corpus Location N Type Contributor
Cantonese Hong Kong, Guangdong 29 ASD, 40 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.