Discussion Details
| Title: | Disc: Re: Free Sharing of Linguistic Research/Info |
| Submitter: | Ana Perez-Leroux |
| Description: | Developmental psycholinguistics has been sharing data online via the
CHILDES database system for over 20 years. Such sharing has had an enormous impact on description of early child language, and on research practices in the field. Publication of corpora in the data has acquired its own area-internal prestige, as everyone in the field is familiar with how much work is involved in collecting, coding and formatting data for digital publication. There is a very specific citation protocol so direct attribution is always made to the author of the database. But my colleagues in the previous posting are right: the initiative has to be taken by senior colleagues who are capable of conferring prestige, and who are in institutions capable of supporting such initiatives. The CHILDES project was carried out by Brian MacWhinney, from Carnegie Mellon, and Catherine Snow, from Harvard University. It started with the digitization of the highly respected, much coveted database collected by Roger Brown, and has been expanding and evolving ever since. To read the previous threads in this discussion, please visit: http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-1001.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-1050.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-1053.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-1060.html |
| Date Posted: | 09-Apr-2009 |
| Linguistic Field(s): | Discipline of Linguistics |
| LL Issue: | 20.1361 |
| Posted: | 09-Apr-2009 |
