update

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear BilingBank,

     It is well past time to update readers of this mailing list regarding changes to the corpora and programs for BilingBank at https://biling.talkbank.org and SLABank at https://slabank.talkbank.org.  Just to remind people about the distinctions between these two, BilingBank contains transcripts from bilinguals, whereas SLABank contains transcripts from second language learners.  BilingBank currently has 13 corpora, many of which have audio, although only the Bangor and Eppler corpora are linked to the audio on the utterance level.

    Most of the new corpora we have been adding are for SLABank, where we now have 44 corpora.  There are so many newly arrived corpora that lislting them would make this quite a long email.  Please just go to https://slabank.talkbank.org/access/ to take a look.  

   I would like to encourage people to use this list for postings of any type related to multilingualism or SLA, including questions about corpora, theoretical issues, methodological issues, book announcements, ideas for projects, requests for information, postings about open positions, and other matters.

    

Best regards,

-- Brian MacWhinney

Teresa Heinz Professor of 

Cognitive Psychology,

Computational Linguistics, 

and Modern Languages, CMU