Datasets:
configs:
- config_name: EnglishNA
default: true
data_files: Eng-NA/processed.csv
- config_name: EnglishUK
data_files: Eng-UK/processed.csv
- config_name: French
data_files: French/processed.csv
- config_name: German
data_files: German/processed.csv
- config_name: Spanish
data_files: Spanish/processed.csv
- config_name: Dutch
data_files: Dutch/processed.csv
- config_name: Mandarin
data_files: Mandarin/processed.csv
- config_name: Japanese
data_files: Japanese/processed.csv
- config_name: Cantonese
data_files: Cantonese/processed.csv
- config_name: Estonian
data_files: Estonian/processed.csv
- config_name: Croatian
data_files: Croatian/processed.csv
- config_name: Danish
data_files: Danish/processed.csv
- config_name: Basque
data_files: Basque/processed.csv
- config_name: Hungarian
data_files: Hungarian/processed.csv
- config_name: Turkish
data_files: Turkish/processed.csv
- config_name: Farsi
data_files: Farsi/processed.csv
- config_name: Icelandic
data_files: Icelandic/processed.csv
- config_name: Indonesian
data_files: Indonesian/processed.csv
- config_name: Irish
data_files: Irish/processed.csv
- config_name: Welsh
data_files: Welsh/processed.csv
- config_name: Korean
data_files: Korean/processed.csv
- config_name: Swedish
data_files: Swedish/processed.csv
- config_name: Norwegian
data_files: Norwegian/processed.csv
- config_name: Quechua
data_files: Quechua/processed.csv
- config_name: Catalan
data_files: Catalan/processed.csv
- config_name: Italian
data_files: Italian/processed.csv
- config_name: PortuguesePt
data_files: PortuguesePt/processed.csv
- config_name: PortugueseBr
data_files: PortugueseBr/processed.csv
- config_name: Romanian
data_files: Romanian/processed.csv
- config_name: Serbian
data_files: Serbian/processed.csv
- config_name: Polish
data_files: Polish/processed.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
- sv
- pl
tags:
- language modeling
- cognitive modeling
pretty_name: Phonemized Child Directed Speech
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
- 1M<n<10M
IPA-CHILDES Dataset
This dataset contains utterances downloaded from CHILDES which have been pre-processed and converted to a phonemic representation. Read the paper here.
Description
Key Columns
The scripts used to create the dataset are available here. Many of the columns from CHILDES have been preserved as they are 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 |
---|---|
processed_gloss |
The pre-processed orthographic utterance. This includes lowercasing, fixing English spelling and adding punctuation marks. This is based on the AOChildes preprocessing. |
ipa_transcription |
A phonemic transcription of the utterance, space-separated with word boundaries marked with the WORD_BOUNDARY token. |
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 ipa_transcription for studies comparing phonetic to orthographic transcriptions. |
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. |
character_split_utterance
and ipa_transcription
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.
Dataset Sections
The following languages are included (ordered by number of phonemes):
Language | Description | Phoible Inventory ID | Speakers | Utterances | Words | Phonemes | % Child |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
EnglishNA | Taken from 49 corpora in the EnglishNA collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code en-us . |
2175 | 3,687 | 2,564,614 | 9,993,744 | 30,986,218 | 35.83 |
EnglishUK | Taken from 16 corpora in the EnglishUK collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code en-gb . |
2252 | 869 | 2,043,115 | 7,147,541 | 21,589,842 | 39.00 |
German | Taken from 10 corpora in the German collection of CHILDES and phonemized using epitran with language code deu-Latn . |
2398 | 829 | 1,525,559 | 5,825,166 | 21,442,576 | 43.61 |
Japanese | Taken from 11 corpora in the Japanese collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code ja . |
2196 | 489 | 998,642 | 2,970,674 | 11,985,729 | 44.20 |
Indonesian | Taken from 1 corpora in the EastAsian/Indonesian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using epitran with language code ind-Latn . |
1690 | 438 | 813,795 | 2,347,642 | 9,370,983 | 34.32 |
French | Taken from 15 corpora in the French collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code fr-fr . |
2269 | 1,277 | 721,121 | 2,973,318 | 8,203,649 | 40.07 |
Spanish | Taken from 18 corpora in the Spanish collection of CHILDES and phonemized using epitran with language code spa-Latn . |
164 | 1,009 | 533,308 | 2,183,992 | 7,742,550 | 45.93 |
Mandarin | Taken from 16 corpora in the Chinese/Mandarin collection of CHILDES and phonemized using pinyin_to_ipa with language code mandarin . |
2457 | 2,118 | 530,022 | 2,264,198 | 6,605,913 | 38.88 |
Dutch | Taken from 5 corpora in the DutchAfricaans/Dutch collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code nl . |
2405 | 107 | 403,472 | 1,475,174 | 4,786,803 | 35.08 |
Polish | Taken from 2 corpora in the Slavic/Polish collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code pl . |
1046 | 511 | 218,860 | 1,042,841 | 4,361,797 | 63.26 |
Serbian | Taken from 1 corpora in the Slavic/Serbian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using epitran with language code srp-Latn . |
2499 | 208 | 319,305 | 1,052,337 | 3,841,600 | 29.14 |
Estonian | Taken from 9 corpora in the Other/Estonian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code et . |
2181 | 157 | 186,921 | 843,189 | 3,429,228 | 44.71 |
Welsh | Taken from 2 corpora in the Celtic/Welsh collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code cy . |
2406 | 269 | 181,292 | 666,350 | 1,939,286 | 69.18 |
Cantonese | Taken from 2 corpora in the Chinese/Cantonese collection of CHILDES and phonemized using pingyam with language code cantonese . |
2309 | 95 | 205,729 | 777,997 | 1,864,771 | 33.54 |
Swedish | Taken from 3 corpora in the Scandinavian/Swedish collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code sv . |
1150 | 41 | 154,064 | 581,451 | 1,782,692 | 44.63 |
PortuguesePt | Taken from 4 corpora in the Romance/Portuguese collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code pt . |
2206 | 45 | 134,543 | 499,522 | 1,538,408 | 39.47 |
Korean | Taken from 3 corpora in the EastAsian/Korean collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code ko . |
423 | 127 | 105,281 | 263,030 | 1,345,276 | 36.76 |
Italian | Taken from 5 corpora in the Romance/Italian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code it . |
1145 | 109 | 94,361 | 352,861 | 1,309,489 | 39.02 |
Croatian | Taken from 1 corpora in the Slavic/Croatian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using epitran with language code hrv-Latn . |
1139 | 54 | 90,992 | 305,112 | 1,109,696 | 39.24 |
Catalan | Taken from 6 corpora in the Romance/Catalan collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code ca . |
2555 | 180 | 89,103 | 319,726 | 1,084,594 | 36.49 |
Icelandic | Taken from 2 corpora in the Scandinavian/Icelandic collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code is . |
2568 | 17 | 78,181 | 279,939 | 1,057,235 | 35.21 |
Basque | Taken from 2 corpora in the Other/Basque collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code eu . |
2161 | 286 | 71,537 | 230,500 | 942,725 | 48.82 |
Hungarian | Taken from 3 corpora in the Other/Hungarian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using epitran with language code hun-Latn . |
2191 | 116 | 69,690 | 237,062 | 918,002 | 47.95 |
Danish | Taken from 1 corpora in the Scandinavian/Danish collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code da . |
2265 | 29 | 84,019 | 275,170 | 824,314 | 41.71 |
Norwegian | Taken from 2 corpora in the Scandinavian/Norwegian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code nb . |
499 | 34 | 61,906 | 227,856 | 729,649 | 42.58 |
PortugueseBr | Taken from 2 corpora in the Romance/Portuguese collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code pt-br . |
2207 | 331 | 22,439 | 174,845 | 577,865 | 44.42 |
Romanian | Taken from 3 corpora in the Romanian collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code ro . |
2443 | 33 | 54,982 | 152,465 | 537,669 | 42.62 |
Turkish | Taken from 2 corpora in the Other/Turkish collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code tr . |
2217 | 118 | 29,317 | 79,404 | 421,129 | 50.58 |
Irish | Taken from 2 corpora in the Celtic/Irish collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code ga . |
2521 | 29 | 27,818 | 105,867 | 338,425 | 34.37 |
Quechua | Taken from 2 corpora in the Other/Quechua collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code qu . |
104 | 14 | 22,397 | 46,848 | 281,478 | 40.06 |
Farsi | Taken from 2 corpora in the Other/Farsi collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code fa-latn . |
516 | 29 | 22,613 | 43,432 | 178,523 | 40.45 |
Papers
This dataset has been used in the following key papers: