configs:
- config_name: English
default: true
data_files:
- split: train
path: Eng-NA/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Eng-NA/valid.csv
- config_name: EnglishUK
data_files:
- split: train
path: Eng-UK/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Eng-UK/valid.csv
- config_name: French
data_files:
- split: train
path: French/train.csv
- split: valid
path: French/valid.csv
- config_name: German
data_files:
- split: train
path: German/train.csv
- split: valid
path: German/valid.csv
- config_name: Spanish
data_files:
- split: train
path: Spanish/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Spanish/valid.csv
- config_name: Dutch
data_files:
- split: train
path: Dutch/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Dutch/valid.csv
- config_name: Mandarin
data_files:
- split: train
path: Mandarin/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Mandarin/valid.csv
- config_name: Japanese
data_files:
- split: train
path: Japanese/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Japanese/valid.csv
- config_name: Cantonese
data_files:
- split: train
path: Cantonese/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Cantonese/valid.csv
- config_name: Estonian
data_files:
- split: train
path: Estonian/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Estonian/valid.csv
- config_name: Croatian
data_files:
- split: train
path: Croatian/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Croatian/valid.csv
- config_name: Danish
data_files:
- split: train
path: Danish/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Danish/valid.csv
- config_name: Basque
data_files:
- split: train
path: Basque/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Basque/valid.csv
- config_name: Hungarian
data_files:
- split: train
path: Hungarian/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Hungarian/valid.csv
- config_name: Turkish
data_files:
- split: train
path: Turkish/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Turkish/valid.csv
- config_name: Farsi
data_files:
- split: train
path: Farsi/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Farsi/valid.csv
- config_name: Icelandic
data_files:
- split: train
path: Icelandic/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Icelandic/valid.csv
- config_name: Indonesian
data_files:
- split: train
path: Indonesian/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Indonesian/valid.csv
- config_name: Irish
data_files:
- split: train
path: Irish/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Irish/valid.csv
- config_name: Welsh
data_files:
- split: train
path: Welsh/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Welsh/valid.csv
- config_name: Korean
data_files:
- split: train
path: Korean/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Korean/valid.csv
- config_name: Swedish
data_files:
- split: train
path: Swedish/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Swedish/valid.csv
- config_name: Norwegian
data_files:
- split: train
path: Norwegian/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Norwegian/valid.csv
- config_name: Quechua
data_files:
- split: train
path: Quechua/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Quechua/valid.csv
- config_name: Catalan
data_files:
- split: train
path: Catalan/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Catalan/valid.csv
- config_name: Italian
data_files:
- split: train
path: Italian/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Italian/valid.csv
- config_name: PortuguesePt
data_files:
- split: train
path: PortuguesePt/train.csv
- split: valid
path: PortuguesePt/valid.csv
- config_name: PortugueseBr
data_files:
- split: train
path: PortugueseBr/train.csv
- split: valid
path: PortugueseBr/valid.csv
- config_name: Romanian
data_files:
- split: train
path: Romanian/train.csv
- split: valid
path: Romanian/valid.csv
language:
- en
- de
- fr
- es
- nl
- cmn
- ja
- yue
- et
- hr
- da
- eu
- hu
- tr
- fa
- is
- id
- ga
- cy
- ko
- sv
- nb
- qu
- ca
- it
- pt
- ro
tags:
- language modeling
- cognitive modeling
pretty_name: Phonemized Child Directed Speech
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
- 1M<n<10M
Phonemized Child Directed Speech Dataset
This dataset contains utterance downloaded from CHILDES which have been pre-processed and converted to phonemic transcriptions by this processing script. Many of the columns from CHILDES have been preserved in case they may be useful for experiments (e.g. number of morphemes, part-of-speech tags, etc.). The key columns added by the processing script are as follows:
Column | Description |
---|---|
is_child |
Whether the utterance was spoken by a child or not. Note that this is set to False for all utterances in this dataset, but the processing script has the ability to preserve child utterances. |
processed_gloss |
The pre-processed orthographic utterance. This includes lowercasing, fixing English spelling and adding punctuation marks. This is based on the AOChildes preprocessing. |
phonemized_utterance |
A phonemic transcription of the utterance, space-separated with word boundaries marked with the WORD_BOUNDARY token. |
language_code |
Language code used for producing the phonemic transcriptions. May not match the language column provided by CHILDES (e.g. Eng-NA and Eng-UK tend to be transcribed with eng-us and eng-gb). |
character_split_utterance |
A space separated transcription of the utterance, produced simply by splitting the processed gloss by character. This is intended to have a very similar format to phonemized_utterance for studies comparing phonetic to orthographic transcriptions. |
The last two columns are designed for training character-based (phoneme-based) language models using a simple tokenizer that splits around whitespace. The processed_gloss
column is suitable for word-based (or subword-based) language models with standard tokenizers.
Note that the data has been sorted by the target_child_age
column, which stores child age in months. This can be used to limit the training data according to a maximum child age, if you wish.
Each subset of the data is split into a training split containing most of the utterances and an in-distribution validation split containing 10,000 utterances. The following languages are included (ordered by number of phonemes):
Language | Description | Speakers | Utterances | Words | Phonemes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
English (US) | Taken from 44 corpora in Eng-NA collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code en-us . |
2,692 | 1,646,954 | 7,090,066 | 21,932,139 |
English (UK) | Taken from 14 corpora in Eng-NA collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code en-gb . |
588 | 1,246,828 | 5,166,197 | 15,727,550 |
German | Taken from 10 corpora in German collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code ge . |
627 | 850,888 | 3,893,168 | 14,058,836 |
Indonesian | Taken from 1 corpus in EastAsian/Indonesian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code id . |
389 | 534,469 | 1,587,526 | 6,367,721 |
Mandarin | Taken from 15 corpora in Chinese/Mandarin collection of CHILDES and phonemized using a pinyin to IPA convertor. | 15 | 883 | 326,759 | 1,511,851 |
French | Taken from 11 corpora in French collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code fr-fr . |
722 | 432,133 | 1,995,063 | 5,510,523 |
Spanish | Taken from 18 corpora in Spanish collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code es . |
562 | 286,462 | 1,266,366 | 4,511,261 |
Japanese | Taken from 9 corpora in Japanese collection of CHILDES and phonemized using segments with language japanese . |
320 | 412,079 | 1,113,194 | 4,346,638 |
Dutch | Taken from 5 corpora in DutchAfricaans/Dutch collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code nl . |
86 | 297,497 | 1,246,006 | 4,034,742 |
Estonian | Taken from 9 corpora in Other/Estonian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code et . |
118 | 103,343 | 544,680 | 2,347,066 |
Cantonese | Taken from 2 corpora in Chinese/Cantonese collection of CHILDES and phonemized by converting from jyutping to IPA using the pingyam database. | 80 | 136,727 | 591,314 | 2,118,731 |
Swedish | Taken from 3 corpora in Scandinavian/Swedish collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code sv . |
32 | 85,299 | 396,800 | 1,241,459 |
Portuguese (Portugal) | Taken from 3 corpora in Romance/Portuguese collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code pt . |
33 | 81,444 | 368,032 | 1,175,413 |
Korean | Taken from 3 corpora in EastAsian/Korean collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code ko . |
95 | 66,576 | 201,078 | 1,076,296 |
Italian | Taken from 5 corpora in Romance/Italian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code it . |
92 | 57,542 | 264,479 | 996,295 |
Catalan | Taken from 5 corpora in Romance/Catalan collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code ca . |
159 | 56,588 | 248,999 | 839,462 |
Croatian | Taken from 1 corpus in Slavic/Croatian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code hr . |
51 | 55,284 | 214,921 | 813,619 |
Welsh | Taken from 2 corpora in Celtic/Welsh collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code cy . |
65 | 55,871 | 269,295 | 785,569 |
Icelandic | Taken from 2 corpora in Scandinavian/Icelandic collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code is . |
15 | 50,657 | 197,519 | 772,952 |
Danish | Taken from 1 corpus in Scandinavian/Danish collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code da . |
25 | 48,976 | 192,527 | 579,375 |
Norwegian | Taken from 2 corpora in Scandinavian/Norwegian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code nb . |
27 | 35,547 | 175,952 | 559,489 |
Basque | Taken from 2 corpora in Other/Basque collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code eu . |
150 | 36,614 | 135,866 | 565,633 |
Hungarian | Taken from 3 corpora in Other/Hungarian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code hu . |
65 | 31,633 | 116,917 | 478,444 |
Romanian | Taken from 2 corpora in Romance/Romanian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code ro . |
21 | 31,550 | 110,067 | 380,828 |
Portuguese (Brazil) | Taken from 2 corpora in Romance/Portuguese collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code pt-br . |
163 | 12,471 | 91,484 | 323,043 |
Irish | Taken from 2 corpora in Celtic/Irish collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code ga . |
20 | 18,256 | 88,388 | 279,045 |
Turkish | Taken from 2 corpora in Other/Turkish collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code tr . |
35 | 14,487 | 43,823 | 230,737 |
Quechua | Taken from 2 corpora in Other/Quechua collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code qu . |
7 | 13,425 | 33,102 | 204,692 |
Farsi | Taken from 2 corpora in Other/Farsi collection of CHILDES and phonemized using language code fa-latn . |
23 | 13,467 | 28,080 | 116,081 |