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JCHAT --- Japanese CHILDES project

The JCHAT project was organized in May 1993 to develop tools for
linking Japanese language acquisition study into the CHILDES
international database for language acquisition research.
The major goals of the project are to develop a Japanese version of
the CHILDES computerized transcription system, to extend the current
CLAN language analysis programs to deal effectively with Japanese
language and Japanese script, and to provide Japanese language
researchers with various tutorial services to integrate highly
reliable Japanese data into the CHILDES international database.

If you wish be a CHILDES/JCHAT member, please contact

	Yuriko Oshima-Takane, Ph.D.
	Dept. of Psychology, McGill University
	1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue, Montreal, P.Q. Canada H3A 1B1
	email: yuriko@hebb.psych.mcgill.ca
	phone: 514-398-4672
	fax:   514-398-4896

Services

• CHAT/CLAN Lessons on the Web (provided by Yuriko Oshima-Takane)
• Introduction to CHILDES/JCHAT(in Japanese) (``Gengo'' Vol. 26, No. 3, 1997, pp.80-87)
• Online Manual
  • PDF format(2.3MB)---Revised on 08-AUG-1998
  • PS format(1.2MB)--- Warning: some pictures cannot be shown
  • Errata for JCHAT manual (revised)
  • Contents and Preface to JCHAT Manual (1st version) (in Japanese)
  • Postscript to JCHAT Manual (1st version) (in Japanese)
  • Errata to JCHAT Manual(1st version) (in Japanese)
• CLAN on the Web
  You can run CLAN programs with sample files on the Web!
• Bibliography:
  • Research on Second Language Acquisition of Asian Languages
  • Bibliography of the research on the acquisition of Japanese L2 (by Prof. Kanagy of University of Oregon)
  • Down's syndrome and Language Development(part 1)
  • Down's syndrome and Language Development(part 2)
  • Lexical Development
  • General
• Data:
  • ISO 639: Code for the representation of names of languages
    Provides two-letter codes for about 140 languages and is intended primarily for use in terminology, lexicography and linguistics.
  • Three-letter codes for the representation of names of languages
    Developed by a Joint Working Group of ISO TC37/SC2 and TC46/SC2. Covers a wider range of the world's languages than ISO 639.

References:

• Ishii-san's Japanese video CHAT on the Web
• CHAT Symbols Table (in Japanese)
• Japanese Terminology (in Japanese)

Related WWW services

• Japan
  • mirror of CHILDES
  • The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS)
  • Prof. Masatoshi Sugiura's JCHAT Page
  • Retrieval service for NACSIS-CAT Databases on World Wide Web
  • Corpus of English by Japanese Learners
  • Japanese Cognitive Sience Society
  • Japan Society of Developmental Psychology (JSDP)
  • National Center for Science Information Systems(NACSIS)
  • The Japanese Society of Social Psychology(JSSP)
  • Japanese Journal of Beahvior Analysis
  • Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
  • The National Language Research Institute (NLRI)
  • International University of Japan (IUJ) Annual Conference on Second Language Research in Japan (SLRJ)
• Outside of Japan
  • CMU CHILDES original
  • the 1998 version of CHILDES/BIB
  • Journal of Japanese Linguistics
  • International Journal of Bilingualism
  • Society for Research in Child Development
  • Cognitive Science Society
  • Stanford University Child Language Research Forum
  • Boston University Conference on Language Development
  • Second Language Research Forum
  • Chicago Linguistic Society
  • International Association for the Study of Child Language
  • TalkBank(from mirror of CHILDES)