The goal of TalkBank is to foster fundamental research in the study of human and animal communication. It will construct sample databases within each of the subfields studying communication. It will use these databases to advance the development of standards and tools for creating, sharing, searching, and commenting upon primary materials via networked computers.
TalkBank is an interdisciplinary research project funded from 1999 to 2004 by a grant from the National Science Foundation (BCS-998009, KDI, SBE) to Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as NSF ITR Grant 0324883 to CMU and Stanford for classroom video databases. Current support comes from the NSF SCOTUS grant, the NSF PSLC grant, and NIH Grants to CMU for CHILDES, PhonBank, and AphasiaBank.
TalkBank is coordinated by Brian MacWhinney (CMU).
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