The Learner Language Project (UWELLP)

The corpus

The following data have been transcribed

Please Note: The files are in CHAT format (MacWhinney 2000), but they can also be opened with Notepad. The details of the CHAT transcription system and the CLAN programme that can be used for the analysis can be downloaded for free from the following site: http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/

French
Level 1                                    24                    example transcript
Level 3                                    20                    example transcript
Native speakers                       23                    example transcript
Verlan*                                   20                    example transcript1; example transcript2

English
Level 1                                      7
Level 3                                      6
Native speakers                       39                    example transcript
ILP students                            60 (data collected by MA students on the MA TEFL and Linguistics)
Asylum seekers                       29 (data collected by Vandana Sharma)
Chinese learners of English      50 (data collected June Snow)

Spanish
Level 1                                   18
Level 2                                   10
Level 3                                   24
Native speakers                        3

* The Verlan data were collected by Sonja Hurez.