The Talk Bank System

Authors: Brian MacWhinney
Updated: Mon 08 July 2019
Source: https://talkbank.org/
Type: language and audio repository
Languages: cross-linguistic
Keywords: conversationinteractionpsycholinguisticschild-language
Open Access: yes
License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Documentation: https://talkbank.org/
Publications: MacWhinney, B. (2019). Understanding spoken language through TalkBank. Behavior Research Methods, 51(4), 1919-1927. https://doi.org/doi:10.3758/s13428-018-1174-9
Citation: MacWhinney, B. The Talk Bank System. Talk Bank. https://talkbank.org/
Summary:

TalkBank is the world's largest open access integrated repository for spoken language data. It provides language corpora and other audio resources to support researchers in Psychology, Linguistics, Education, Computer Science, and Speech Pathology. There are 14 main components of TalkBank: AphasiaBank, CHILDES, FluencyBank, HomeBank, PhonBank, ASDBank, BilingBank, CABank, ClassBank, DementiaBank, RHDBank, SamtaleBank, SLABank, and TBIBank. These components are being used to study the cognitive, neurological, developmental, and social bases of language processing and structure.