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Klammler, Astrid; Schneider, Stefan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
In the present study, the natural and simultaneous first language acquisition of a German-Italian bilingual boy and an Italian monolingual girl from 1;8 to 2;1 are analyzed and compared. The investigation focuses on the rate of acquisition and the size and composition of the productive lexicons. At the end of the observation period, the bilingual…
Descriptors: Nouns, Monolingualism, German, Language Acquisition
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Rutherford, William; Thomas, Margaret – Second Language Research, 2001
Reviews two guides on the Child Language Data Exchange (CHILDES) project, both of which provide tools for analyzing talk. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Databases, Language Research, Second Language Instruction
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MacWhinney, Brian; Snow, Catherine – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Examines the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES), its organizational form, and its three major tools: (1) the CHILDES database of transcripts, (2) the CHAT system for transcribing and coding data, and (3) the CLAN programs for analyzing CHAT files. (GLR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Databases, Information Systems, Language Handicaps
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Myles, Florence – Second Language Research, 2005
This article presents a selective review of the work carried out recently in second language acquisition (SLA) research which makes use of oral learner corpora and computer technologies. In the first part, the reasons why the field of SLA needs corpora for addressing current theoretical issues are briefly reviewed. In the second part, recent…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Interlanguage