The corpus of spontaneous speech data of 58 kindergarten children from different linguistic and social backgrounds and their adult caretakers (parents and kindergarten teachers) was collected and transcribed from 2012 to 2015 within the project “Investigating Parental and Other Caretakers‘ Utterances to Kindergarten Children (INPUT)” (WWTF SSH11-027) financed by the Vienna Science and Technology. From age 2;11 to 4;11 (in years;months), the children were audio- and video-recorded four times at home (mainly in interaction with their parental main caretakers) and four times in kindergarten (mainly in interaction with their kindergarten teachers). In addition, interviews with parents and teachers were conducted and transcribed as well. 31 of these children acquire German as their first language (L1), and 27 children acquire Turkish as their family language and German as early second language in kindergarten (L2). From 2017 to 2018, interviews with 24 of these children (14 L1, 10 L2) were conducted within the follow-up project “Telling stories and learning to read” financed by the Vienna Chamber of Labour and led by Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Verena Blaschitz. These interview data were also transcribed. The corpus consists of 464 transcripts (432 in German and 32 in Turkish) of mostly 30-minute recordings comprising about 1,451.000 running words that were transcribed in CHAT format using the CLAN program package of CHILDES and tagged for parts of speech (PoS), inflectional morphology and selected categories of word formation (e.g., diminutives, compounds).

For further questions please contact katharina.korecky-kroell(at)oeaw.ac.at.