ECOLANG Corpus

The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus provides audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic semi-naturalistic interaction with a child or another adult.

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The ECOLANG corpus is now publicly available (see below for information on how to access it).

The corpus is described in Gu, Y; Donnellan, E; Grzyb, B; Brekelmans, G; Murgiano, M; Brieke, R; Perniss, P; Vigliocco, G (2025). The ECOLANG corpus of adult-child and adult-adult conversation. Scientific Data, 12, 89.

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Gu, Y; Donnellan, E; Grzyb, B; Brekelmans, G; Murgiano, M; Brieke, R; Perniss, P; Vigliocco, G (2025)

The ECOLANG corpus of adult-child and adult-adult conversation. Scientific Data, 12, 89.

Grzyb, B; Frank, SF; Vigliocco, G (2024).

Communicative efficiency in multimodal language directed at children and adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(7), 1904-1919.

Motamedi, Y; Murgiano, M; Grzyb, B; Gu, Y; Kewenig, V; Brieke, R; Donnellan, E; Marshall, C; Wonnacott, E; Perniss, P; Vigliocco, G (2024).

Language development beyond the here-and-now: Iconicity and displacement in child-directed communication. Child Development, 00, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14099

Cabiddu, F; Edwards, C, Hill-Payne H; Donnellan, E; Gu, Y; Vigliocco G (2023)

What predicts adult word learning in naturalistic interaction? A corpus study. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 46

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