TalkBank

Rules for Data Citation

All articles using specific TalkBank corpora should cite the references for those corpora that are listed in the documentation manuals. For example, papers making use of the Brown corpus in CHILDES would include this citation: Brown, R. (1973) A first language: the early stages. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. This is crucial!

An alternative method for citing a corpus is to use the DOI. A few corpora do not provide an article to be cited. In that case, you can use this method. Here is an example:

Bat-El, Outi (2020). CHILDES Database Hebrew Bat-El Corpus. doi:10.21415/T5P322

When using this method, it would be best to use the year in which you retrieved and analyzed the data, because things can change over time and using the year would help people who might be interested in replication. Fortunately, the DOI is constant over time.

For grant reporting purposes, we need to track usage in published papers through scholar.google.com. To permit this, please also include a citation of one of these general database references:

• AphasiaBank: MacWhinney, B., Fromm, D., Forbes, M. & Holland, A. (2011). AphasiaBank: Methods for studying discourse. Aphasiology, 25,1286-1307. Note: Please also acknowledge this grant support for AphasiaBank -- NIH-NIDCD R01-DC008524 (2022-2027).
• ASDBank: MacWhinney, B. (2019). Understanding spoken language through TalkBank. Behavior Research Methods. doi:10.3758/s13428-018-1174-9
• BilingBank: MacWhinney, B. (2019). TalkBank and SLA. In N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Paquot (Eds.), The Handbook of SLA and Corpora. New York: Routledge.
• CABank: MacWhinney, B., & Wagner, J. (2010). Transcribing, searching and data sharing: The CLAN software and the TalkBank data repository. Gesprachsforschung, 11, 154-173.
• CHILDES: MacWhinney, B. (2000). The CHILDES Project: Tools for analyzing talk. Third Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Note: Please also acknowledge this grant support for CHILDES -- NICHD HD082736.
• CLAN: Articles based on the use of the CLAN programs to create new data should cite: MacWhinney, B. (2000). The CHILDES Project: Tools for analyzing talk. Third Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• ClassBank: MacWhinney, B. (2007). A transcript-video database for collaborative commentary in the Learning Sciences. In R. Goldman, R. Pea, B. Barron, & S. Derry (Eds.), Video research in the learning sciences (pp. 537-546). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• DementiaBank (Pitt corpus): Becker, J. T., Boller, F., Lopez, O. L., Saxton, J., & McGonigle, K. L. (1994). The natural history of Alzheimer's disease: description of study cohort and accuracy of diagnosis. Archives of Neurology, 51(6), 585-594. Note: Please also acknowledge this grant support for the Pitt corpus -- NIA AG03705 and AG05133.
• DementiaBank (general): Lanzi, A. M., Saylor, A. K., Fromm, D., Liu, H., MacWhinney, B., & Cohen, M. (2023). DementiaBank: Theoretical rationale, protocol, and illustrative analyses. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-22-00281
• FluencyBank: Bernstein Ratner, N., & MacWhinney, B. (2018). Fluency Bank: A new resource for fluency research and practice Journal of Fluency Disorders, 56, 69-80. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2018.03.002 Note: Please also acknowledge this grant support for FluencyBank -- NIH NIDCD R01-DC015494.
• HomeBank: VanDam, M., Warlaumont, A. S., Bergelson, E., Cristia, A., Soderstrom, M., De Palma, P., & MacWhinney, B. (2016). HomeBank: An online repository of daylong child-centered audio recordings. Seminars in Speech and Language, 37(2), 128-142. doi:10.1055/s-0036-1580745 Note: Please also acknowledge this grant support for HomeBank -- NSF SBE RIDIR Grants 1539129, 1539133, and 1539010.
• Phon and PhonBank: Rose, Y., & MacWhinney, B. (2014). The PhonBank Project: Data and software-assisted methods for the study of phonology and phonological development. In Durand J., Gut U., & Kristoffersen, G. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of corpus phonology (pp. 380-401). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Note: Please also acknowledge this grant support for PhonBank -- NIH-NICHHD RO1-HD051698.
• RHDBank Minga, J., Johnson, M., Blake, M. L., Fromm, D., & MacWhinney, B. (2021). Making sense of right hemisphere discourse using RHDBank. Topics in Language Disorders, 41(1), 99-122. doi:10.1097/TLD.0000000000000244
• SamtaleBank MacWhinney, B. (2019). Understanding spoken language through TalkBank. Behavior Research Methods. doi:10.3758/s13428-018-1174-9
• SLABank MacWhinney, B. (2019). TalkBank and SLA. In N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Paquot (Eds.), The Handbook of SLA and Corpora. New York: Routledge.
• TBIBank Elbourn, E., Kenny, B., Power, E., & Togher, L. (2019). Psychosocial outcomes of severe traumatic brain injury in relation to discourse recovery: A longitudinal study up to 1 year post-injury. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 28(4), 1463-1478. doi:10.1044/2019_AJSLP-18-0204

If your research relies on more than six corpora from any given database, you do not need to cite each corpus and can just refer to the overall database.