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README: Speech samples of typically developing Afrikaans speaking children
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Full name:		UP Corpus of Afrikaans child speech
Version:        0.0

Description:	
Speech samples elicited from 30 normally developing Afrikaans speaking children between the ages of 3 years and 6 months and 9 years and 6 months. The child’s speech in each recording is orthographically transcribed. In each age group the speech produced by one child of each gender was also transcribed phonetically.  
        
ZIP file contents:        
Afrikaans Recordings.zip - Audio files
Afrikaans - Orthographic Transcriptions.zip - Orthographic transcriptions of child speech in ELAN format.
Afrikaans - Phonetic Transcriptions.zip - Phonetic transcriptions of one girl and one boy per age group in ELAN format. 

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DETAILED INFORMATION
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Sample Size: N = 30 (15 male, 15 female)

Language(s): Monolingual Afrikaans (Recordings contain numerous examples of code switching between Afrikaans and English.)

Age: 3;6-3;11 (mean [SD] = 3.72 [0.13]), 4;0-4;11 (mean [SD]= 4.22 [0.13]), 5;0-5;11 (mean [SD] = 5.47 [0.31]), 6;0-6;11 (mean [SD]= 6.33 [0.43]), and 7;0-9;6 (mean [SD]= 8.48 [0.73]), three male and three female participants per category.

Language status: Typically developing children.

Setting elicitation: One on one, one adult and one child. 

Person recording: Trained SLP (only one person involved).

Hardware: Zoom H1n Handy Recorder

Material used for recording: Described in “P. Liebenberg, Describing the spoken language skills of typically developing Afrikaans-speaking children using language sample analysis, Master’s thesis, University of Pretoria, 2021, http://hdl.handle.net/2263/84040”

Note that the are cases where the same child was recorded more than once. In these cases the file names includes "_1", "_2" or "_3" depending on the number of recordings that were made.

Transcribers: Two qualified SLTs and one Afrikaans linguist.
 
Software used for transcription: ELAN

Transcription
Orthographic transcriptions: Child speech only (all children)
Phonetic transcriptions: Child speech only (one boy and one girl in each age group)

Transcription reliability: Above 0.7 for all measures, detail presented in “P. Liebenberg, Describing the spoken language skills of typically developing Afrikaans-speaking children using language sample analysis, Master’s thesis, University of Pretoria, 2021”