May 5, 2015 Dataset Restricted Access

TÜ_DE-cL2-Korpus

Rothweiler, Monika

Data curator(s)

Video recordings in German of eight bilingual children with L1 Turkish and L2 German with AOA of 3-4 years. Several recordings of spontaneous speech (play) during 7-28 months at ages approx. 3-6,5 years, and of elicited language with focus on article usage. Comparable data for the TÜ_DE-L1-Korpus.

The "Turkish-German Successive-Bilinguals Corpus" (TÜ_DE_cL2 Hamburg) is a corpus of spoken child language that has been collected in the project Specific Language Impairment and Early Successive Language Acquisition (Project E4) at the Research Center on Multilingualism, University of Hamburg. The corpus consists of 94 longitudinal spontaneous speech samples (20-50 minutes) and of data from 18 elicitation tasks in German from eight typically-developing successive-bilingual children with Turkish as their first language (L1). The corpus was recorded between 2003 and 2008. The children were born in Germany and lived in families with Turkish as the home language. The L1 of both parents was Turkish and they were not very proficient in German which was their second language (L2). None of these children had elder siblings attending school who could have brought German into the family life. Furthermore, the families lived in parts of Hamburg with a mainly Turkish-speaking population. The children started to acquire German as early L2, when they started to attend a German Kindergarten (KiTa) at the age of three to four. They stayed at least four hours a day in the KiTa. Thus, the age of onset (AO) of German is between a few months before the age of three (AO3) and a few months after the age of four (AO4). The children have no hearing loss or language-impairment (in German and Turkish). None of the children had a cognitive impairment (non-verbal IQ-test). The recordings of Gül and Faruk start after two and three months of exposure to German (ME), the recordings of the other six children after ME 8 and 9. The spontaneous speech data were recorded in a playing session with the child and a monolingual German interviewer. There are between six and twenty-three spontaneous speech samples per child over a period between seven and 28 months. The elicitation task refers to the use of articles in nominative and accusative constructions. The sessions were videotaped and then transcribed on the basis of conventions of the project. The transcriptions were checked by a second person. The transcriptions contain (orthographic) verbal utterances of the child and the interviewer, comments on deviant pronunciation or specific characteristics of the child`s speech and partly the child`s non-verbal behaviour and comments on the situation.

CLARIN Metadata summary for TÜ_DE-cL2-Korpus (CMDI-based)

Title: TÜ_DE-cL2-Korpus
Description: Video recordings in German of eight bilingual children with L1 Turkish and L2 German with AOA of 3-4 years. Several recordings of spontaneous speech (play) during 7-28 months at ages approx. 3-6,5 years, and of elicited language with focus on article usage. Comparable data for the TÜ_DE-L1-Korpus.
Data owner: Monika Rothweiler, rothweiler@uni-bremen.de
Contributors: Monika Rothweiler, rothweiler@uni-bremen.de (compiler)
Project: E4 "Specific language impairment and early second language acquisition: Differentiating deviations in morphosyntactic acquisition", German Research Foundation (DFG)
Keywords: child language acquisition, child bilingualism, longitudinal data, child L2 acquisition, successive bilingualism, L2 data, EXMARaLDA
Language: German (deu)
Size: 19 speakers (19 female, 0 male), 112 communications, 112 transcriptions, 348292 words
Genre: discourse
Modality: spoken