PhonBank Clinical English Preston Corpus


Jonathan Preston
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Syracuse University

Participants: 44
Type of Study: clinical
Location: Upstate New York
Media type: audio
DOI: doi:10.21415/T5WD6J

Browsable transcripts

Phon data

CHAT data

Link to media folder

Citation information

Preston, J. L., & Edwards, M. L. (2010). Phonological awareness and speech error types in preschoolers with speech sound disorders. Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research, 53, 44-60.

Preston, J. L., Hull, M., & Edwards, M. L. (2013). Preschool speech error patterns predict articulation and phonological awareness outcomes in children with histories of speech sound disorders. Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 22(2), 173-184. doi:10.1044/1058-0360(2012/12-0022)

Preston, J. L., Ramsdell, H. L., Oller, D. K., Edwards, M. L., & Tobin, S. J. (2011). Developing a weighted measure of speech sound accuracy. Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research, 54, 1-18.

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

Project Description

The children in this corpus were preschoolers ages 4-5 years. All were monolingual speakers of American English and all resided in upstate New York. All had speech sound disorders (SSD) as identified by local speech-language clinicians and verified by the Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation-2. Receptive language was broadly within normal limits based on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4 (PPVT-4) and the Sentence Structure and Concepts & Following Directions subtests of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals: Preschool-2 (CELF-P2). Additionally, all children participated in phonological awareness assessments.

The recordings presented here include a 125-item picture naming task designed to assess all English sounds at least twice in initial, medial, and final positions of words. Recordings were collected with a digital voice recorder and were sampled at 44 kHz. Data were collected either at the child’s home or at a university research lab setting. Phonetic transcriptions were completed by the same transcriptionist, a speech-language pathologist and doctoral candidate. Speech sound error types were classified as typical sound changes (e.g., phonological processes such as velar fronting, /s/ cluster reduction), atypical sound changes (e.g., deletion of onset singletons) and clinical distortions (e.g., lateralization of sibilants). Further details are provided in the publications listed above.

ParticipantAgeSex
P014;4M
P025;0M
P044;0M
P054;10M
P075;1M
P084;6F
P095;4M
P104;11M
P144;0F
P155;5M
P165;4M
P184;5M
P195;6M
P204;0F
P214;4M
P225;9M
P234;1F
P244;2M
P254;2M
P264;2M
P274;7M
P284;8F
P304;10M
P314;5F
P324;6M
P334;1M
P344;2M
P354;7M
P374;10M
P384;8F
P394;10M
P404;4M
P414;3M
P424;5M
P434;0M
P454;0M
P465;1M
P484;3F
P494;11M
P504;11M
P514;11F
P524;0M
P534;4M
P545;0M