HomeBank English Cougar Corpus

Mark VanDam Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences Washington State University mark.vandam@wsu.edu

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VanDam, M., Warlaumont, A.S., Bergelson, E., Cristia, A., Soderstrom, M., De Palma, P., & MacWhinney, B. (2016). HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings. Seminars in Speech and Language, 37(02), 128-142. doi: 10.1055/s-0036-1580745.

VanDam M., & Silbert, N.H. (2016). Fidelity of Automatic Speech Processing for Adult and Child Talker Classifications. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0160588. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0160588

VanDam, M., Jessup, C., & Tully, T. (2016, November). Fathers’ and mothers’ differential talk to sons and daughters with hearing loss. Poster presented at the 172nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the 5th Joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI.

VanDam, M., & Tully, T. (2016, May). Quantity of mothers’ and fathers’ speech to sons and daughters. Talk presented at the 171st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT.

VanDam, M., De Palma, P., & Silbert, N.H. (2016, May). Fidelity of automatically coded family speech of mothers, fathers, and 30 month-old children with and without hearing loss. Talk presented as part of the Paper Symposium "Studying Language Development Through Human and Automated Annotation of Infants' Natural Auditory Environments" at the 2016 International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS), New Orleans, LA, May 27, 2016.

Heid, H. N. (2016, March). Semi-automated linguistic transcription of daylong audio files. Poster presented at the Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, Pullman, WA.

VanDam, M., & Silbert, N. (2015, November). Fidelity of automatic speech recognition labeling. Talk presented at the American Speech-Language Hearing Association Convention, Denver, CO.

VanDam, M., & Carns, K. (2015, November). Acquisition of syntactic question types in children who are hard of hearing. Poster presented at the American Speech-Language Hearing Association Convention, Denver, CO.

VanDam, M., De Palma, P., Strong, W. E. (2015, May). Fundamental frequency of speech directed to children who have hearing loss. Poster presented at the 169th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA.

Matalone, H., Stoddard, C., Bookhout, T., & Carns, K. (2015, April). Transcription reliability of the speech of preschoolers with hearing loss. Poster presented at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Cheney, WA.

Carns, K. (2015). Question Exposure and Production in Preschoolers Who Are Hard-of-Hearing. Unpublished Washington State University master’s thesis.

In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one of the above references.

Corpus Citation: VanDam, Mark (2018). VanDam Cougar HomeBank Corpus. doi:10.21415/T5WT25

Corpus Description

Here is the key to the fields in this metadata file:

1. DOB = date of birth
2. ID = 4-character subject identifier
3. isHL = has hearing loss
4. BEPTA = better ear pure tone average (dB HL)
5. BESII = better ear speech intelligibility index
6. ageID = age hearing loss identified (months)
7. ageAmp = age fitted with amplification (months)
8. isMale = is male
9. race: 1=Pacific Island, 2=Native American, 3=Black/African, 4=Asian, 5=White, 6=mix
10. edMom/edDad: 1=elementary school, 2=junior high, 3=GED, 4=high school, 5=enrolled in technical/vocational school, 6=completed technical/vocational school, 7=enrolled in university, 8=bachelorís degree, 9=enrolled in graduate school, 10=masterís degree, 11=enrolled in doctoral degree, 12=PhD/JD/MD
11. CI = has cochlear implant

This file list provides information about the ages, ID, and hearing status for each file.

This file gives the total time duration for each file in the Cougar corpus, one line for each file.

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