Children's language
Jasmin Speech corpus
BasiLex-corpus
The Basilex corpus is an annotated collection of texts written for children in the age from four to twelve years.
- version 1.0 (2015)
- Tellings, A., Hulsbosch, M., Vermeer, A. & van den Bosch, A. (2015). BasiLex: an 11.5-million words corpus of Dutch texts written for children. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal 4, 191-208
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BasiScript-corpus
The BasiScript Corpus is an annotated collection of texts written by children in the age from four to twelve years.
- version 1.0 (2015)
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CHILDES
CHILDES contains a large collection of corpora, which are datasets of transcripts of child-adult interactions, typically annotated and searchable. These include conversations, storytelling, and other linguistic exchanges, gathered from children of various languages, ages, and contexts. A login is required.
- index to CHILDES data from Dutch and Afrikaans.
- browse the Dutch database online
Subcorpora:
- Dutch-English De Houwer Corpus: the study focuses on dialect features unique to the Antwerp area
- The Asymmetries Project collection contains Dutch language productions gathered in Groningen and neighboring towns in the northern Netherlands, between 2007 and 2012
- Aarssen/Bos This database contains 1021 transcripts collected in the Netherlands, Turkey, and Morocco by Jeroen Aarssen and Petra Bos, at Tilburg University. Bilingual data (either Turkish-Dutch or Moroccan Arabic-Dutch) were collected within the framework of a longitudinal study into development of bilingualism among Turkish and Moroccan children in the Netherlands.