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README: Language samples of typically developing Sesotho sa Leboa speaking children
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Full name:		UP Corpus of Sesotho sa Leboa child language
Version:        0.0

Description:	
Language samples elicited from 60 typically developing Sesotho sa Leboa 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. 
        
ZIP file contents:        
Sesotho sa Leboa Speech.zip - Audio files
Sesotho sa Leboa - Orthographic Transcriptions.zip - Orthographic transcriptions of child speech in ELAN format.

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

Language(s): Monolingual Sesotho sa Leboa

Age: 3;6-3;11, 4;0-4;11, 5;0-5;11, 6;0-6;11, and 7;0-9;6, six male and six 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”

Transcribers: three first language Sesotho sa Leboa speakers
Software used for transcription: ELAN

Transcription
Orthographic transcriptions: Child speech only (all children)