ECOLANG Corpus

The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult conversation provides audiovisual recordings and annotation of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults and children engaged in semi-naturalistic conversation.

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Multimodal Language Corpora Workshop

Explore a toolkit for the creation, annotation and application of language corpora, produced with participants from our Multimodal Language Corpora Workshop.

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Wang Y; Donnellan E; Vigliocco G (2023)

How Speech and Representational Gestures Align in Child-Directed Language: A Corpus-based Study. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 45 (45)

Donnellan E; Jordan-Barros, A; Theofilogiannakou N; Brekelmans G; Murgiano M; Motamedi Y; Grzyb B; Gu Y; Vigliocco G (2023)

The impact of caregivers' multimodal behaviours on children’s word learning: A corpus-based investigation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 45 (45)

Shi J; Gu Y; Vigliocco G (2022)

Prosodic modulations in child-directed language and their impact on word learning. Developmental Science DOI: 10.1111/desc.13357

Donnellan E; Ozder LE; Man H; Grzyb B; Gu Y; Vigliocco G (2022)

Timing relationships between representational gestures and speech: A corpus based investigation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 44, 2052-2058