Abstract
We introduce a project focused on developing a multilingual database of Australian children’s English and Heritage Language (HL) speech, starting with Spanish and adding other HLs progressively. Leveraging the technology and expertise from the AusKidTalk corpus [1], our database currently comprises approximately 610 hours of speech from children aged 3-7 years who speak English only or English and Spanish. Data were collected through online testing sessions featuring eight psycholinguistic tasks designed to elicit both single-word, sentence, and short story productions. This paper outlines the key features, design, data collection and analysis method, as well as the repository storage for data management. The aim is to facilitate linguistic research on language development in monolingual and multilingual Australian children. In this paper, we showcase the database, discuss the analyses conducted so far, and outline projects that have already used the database as well as future related projects. Additionally, we will detail our current data management plan and share our vision for collaborating with the broader research community.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 3–5 December 2024, Melbourne, Australia |
| Editors | Olga Maxwell, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen |
| Place of Publication | Canberra, A.C.T. |
| Publisher | Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association |
| Pages | 97-101 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2024 |
| Event | Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology - University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 3 Dec 2024 → 5 Dec 2024 Conference number: 19th |
Conference
| Conference | Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology |
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| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Melbourne |
| Period | 3/12/24 → 5/12/24 |