overheard speech (OvS) study

this page contains an overview of OvS study and any related documentation.

Introduction

Welcome to the Overheard speech study user manual. This guide provides overview of the study and step-by-step instructions on how to carry out the components of the study) (i.e., the naturalistic and experiment parts of the study). It also includes the current state of the data for each component.

Purpose

This page is designed to:

• describe the goals of the research project

• for the naturalistic component:

  • describe the annotation workflow

  • provide instructions in coding for different language measures (e.g., syntactic clause) within a file

  • provide general approach/tips for coding files

  • describe the current state of the experiment

• For the experimental component

  • describe how stimuli was created and processed

  • describe the current state of the experiment

Table of Contents

1. Project Overview - for info about goal and approach of the study

2. Naturalistic study - for more info about naturalistic component of study

   1. Coding Overheard Speech Files - for info on how to code a file for naturalistic part

      1. General Approach/Tips for Coding OvS Files - suggestions for coding file for naturalistic part.

      2. Coding for Child-Directed Speech - for info on how to identify the intended child recipient of speech.

      3. Coding for Syntactic Measures - for info on how to code for different syntactic measure (e.g., types of sentences).

      4. Transcribing CHI tier - for info about CHI tier transcription process that was implemented for file at 54 month follow-up (SF5).

      5. Coding for Decontextualized Language - info on how to code for decontextualized language

      6. Superchecker Duties - instructions for reviewing files after they've been fully annotated

3. Experimental study - for more info about the experimental component of the study.