PhonBank Turkish Istanbul Corpus

Merve Biçer Speech and Language Therapy Istanbul Medipol University mbicer@medipol.edu.tr website

Özlem Ünal-Logacev Speech and Language Therapy Istanbul Medipol University ologacev@medipol.edu.tr

Browsable transcripts

Phon data

CHAT data

Link to media folder

Citation information

Biçer, M. (2020). Investigation of the phonological development of children between 2-8 years old via Phon software. Unpublished Master's thesis, Istanbul Medipol University.

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Project Description

The corpus contains audio-recordings (speech samples) of 120 typically-developing native Turkish speaker children between the ages of 2;0 to 7;11. Table 1 shows the age and gender of the participants as well as the education of their mothers. The codes used for participants consist of three components, separated by underscores (“_”). The first component is set to “sch” if the child attends primary school and “pre” otherwise. The second component is the child’s age. The third component is a unique participant ID.

The parents of all participants signed the Consent Form, which explains the aim of the current research project and PhonBank’s ethical rules.

The data is collected by administering the Articulation subtest of the Articulation and Phonological Test (Sesletim Sesbilgisi Testi – SST) (Topbaş, 2005). This subtest is a picture naming test: The participants are shown pictures of 93 words that include all consonant phonemes and three allophones of Turkish, which they are asked to name. Each speech sound is tested at four positions: Word initially, syllable initially within the word, syllable finally within the word, and word finally. Due to the phonotactic rules of Turkish, some speech sounds could not be tested in all syllable positions.

The data was recorded in a quiet room with a Sony ICD-PX820 recorder (N=87) or the voice recording applications of various cell phones (N=33). All files were subsequently converted to high-quality MP3s.