CHILDES Georgian ISU Corpus

	Tinatin Chincharauli Director of Child Development Institute Ilia State University, ISU tinatin.chincharauli@iliauni.edu.ge		Nino Tsintsadze Language and Speech Therapy Ilia State University, ISU nino.tsintsadze@iliauni.edu.ge
	Nino Doborjginidze Institute for Linguistic Research Ilia State University, ISU nino_doborjginidze@iliauni.edu.ge		Teona Damenia Institute for Linguistic Research Ilia State University, ISU
	Tamar Kalkhitashvili Institute for Linguistic Research Ilia State University, ISU		Sigal Uziel-Karl Achva Academic College, Israel

Participants:	4
Type of Study:	longitudinal
Location:	Tbilisi, Georgia
Media type:	Video
DOI:	doi:10.21415/V1TJ-K204

Citation Information

Makharoblidze, T., Damenia, T., Doborjginidze, N., Tsintsadze, N., Tchintcharauli, T., & Kalkhitashvili, T. (2022) . Argument Marking and Verbal Agreement in the Speech of Georgian Children. Languages, 7(4), 314. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040314

Tchintcharauli, T., Tsintsadze, N., Damenia, T., Kalkhitashvili, T., Doborjginidze, N., & Uziel-Karl, S. (2024). Establishing guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian. First Language, 44(4), 345-371.

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Corpus Description

The project “Language acquisition in Georgian-Speaking Children”, funded by Shota Rustaveli National Foundation of Georgia, was launched at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, offers a structured platform to collect, document, code and analyze Georgian child language in order to study various aspects of typical language acquisition. About 480 hours of recording is in the process of transcription, coding and analyze. The corpus is based on data collected in frames of a longitudinal and cross-sectional study of 4 monolingual Georgian-speaking children and their primary caretakers. 3 to 5 hours of recording for each child per month were collected for 23 months

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Rachel Yifat (Haifa University) for advising the project.

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