HomeBank HomeBank Corpora

Homebank data is transcribed in CHAT format as described in the CHAT manual. Transcribed data have been cleared for public access. The extensive collection of audio data has been diarized but not transcribed. Those data are password protected and open only to HomeBank members. For information on how to apply for HomeBank membership, see this link. The use of public HomeBank data is governed by the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 License. The use of private HomeBank data is governed by the HomeBank Data Use Agreement for Unvetted Recordings. Please remember to read the documentation that accompanies each corpus and follow the guidelines for data-sharing.

This page provides an index to HomeBank data. In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from these corpora must cite at least one corpus reference (see citation info on corpus page) and acknowledge HomeBank grant support -- NSF SBE RIDIR Grants 1539129, 1539133, and 1539010.

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Special Projects: In addition to the full corpora listed below, there is a collection of Special Project data indexed here


Corpus Participants Recordings Description Access Lead Contributor
Bergelson Seedlings 44 87 Study of exposure to object words members Elika Bergelson
Casillas 54 54 Tseltal families limited Marisa Casillas
Cougar 59 HI, 34 NH 530 HI, 255 NH English members Mark VanDam
Cychosz 22 645 US and Bolivia limited Meg Cychosz
DavisKean 45 580 US members Pamela Davis-Kean
deBarbaroChaos 14 -- 5-second samples of random noise members Kaya de Barbaro
deBarbaroCry 26 44129 5-second samples of cry and no-cry members Kaya de Barbaro
Ellis 11 12 daylong recordings of Kindergarten teachers limited Alexa Ellis
FauseyTrio 62 186 3 daylong recordings per week per infant members Caitlin Fausey
FauseyTrio-Public 1 3 3 daylong recordings per week per infant public Caitlin Fausey
FieldsOlivieri25 25 25 cries, no audio members Margaret Fields-Olivieri
Lyon 16 49 French members Marie-Thérèse LeNormand
McDivitt 6 22 Children born to adolescent and adult mothers limited Karmen McDivitt
MendozaMusic-Public 1 3 Sample from the larger password corpus public Jennifer Mendoza
VanDam Public 5-minute 53 159 5-minute transcribed segments from daylong recordings public Mark VanDam
VanDam Public Daylong 1 1 Complete transcriptions of daylong recordings public Mark VanDam
Warlaumont 56 166 Longitudinal study of children learning English and/or Spanish members Anne Warlaumont
Winnipeg 2 8 Comparison across different child care settings members Melanie Soderstrom