PhonBank French Yamaguchi Corpus


Naomi Yamaguchi
Phonetics & Phonology Laboratory
University of Paris

website
Participants: 1
Type of Study: naturalistic
Location: Paris
Media type: video
DOI: doi:10.21415/T5ZP45

Browsable transcripts

Phon data

CHAT data

Link to media folder

Citation information

Yamaguchi, Naomi (2012). Parcours d’acquisition des sons du langage chez deux enfants francophones, Ph.D. Dissertation, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.

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Project Description

The recordings were part of the Leonard and COLAJE projects coordinated by Prof. Aliyah Morgenstern. The participant in these projects was recorded in his home in a naturalistic setting, for one hour every month. Adrien was recorded from in 26 sessions from age 1;11.14 to 4;3.27 by the author, who is also a friend of the child’s family.

During the recordings the child typically looked at picture books and played with toys with one of his parents, and sometimes bathing times were recorded; there were no instructions given as to word elicitation to the parents.

The video recordings were made using a Sony HDV 1080i/mini DV camera, and the audio recordings were made using a wireless microphone (Sennheiser, EW 112-p G2) worn by the child. The tapes were digitized using iMovie.

This corpus was originally segmented and transcribed with Phon. The phonetic transcription (IPA Actual) was double-checked as for 4.5% of the total data, and the agreement percentage for consonants reached 95.5%.

Warnings regarding transcript-video linkage

For 17-2_08_12 both the video and the audio "freeze"  at 35:40 minutes. The last 22:00 minutes are stuck on a single image with no audio. For 29-3_10_13 both video and audio "freeze" at 26:10 minutes.  The last 31:25 minutes are stuck on a single image with no audio.

There are also a number of transcription oddities in this folder that I will mention: