PhonBank Clinical English McAllister Corpus

Tara McAllister Communicative Sciences and Disorders New York University at Steinhardt tkm214@nyu.edu website

Magdi Sobeih Department of Developmental Medicine & Neurology Integrated Center for Child Development msobeih@iccdpartners.org website

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Phon data

CHAT data

Link to media folder

Citation information

• McAllister Byun, Tara. 2009. The Articulatory Basis of Positional Asymmetries in Phonological Acquisition. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. Dissertation.
• McAllister Byun, Tara. 2011. A Gestural Account of a Child-specific Neutralization in Strong Position. Phonology 28(3). 371–412.
• McAllister Byun, Tara. 2012. Positional Velar Fronting: An Updated Articulatory Account. Journal of Child Language 39(5). 1043–1076.

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Project Description

This longitudinal corpus was collected through the support of Neurolinguistics of Language Acquisition and Delay Clinic at Children’s Hospital, Boston. The single case study subject is a child with speech sound delay/disorder with features of Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Recordings were collected during the subject’s one-hour therapy sessions on a roughly biweekly basis. All of the subject’s interactions with his mother and the clinician were recorded using a Sony ICD-SX57 portable mp3 recorder. The corpus is heterogeneous, consisting of both spontaneous and imitative utterances produced in structured and unstructured contexts.

Participant name: "Ben"
Sex: male
Age range: 3;9.27 - 4;3.5
Sessions: 17