Corpus lingüísticos de habla infantil y representatividadel valor de los datos en repertorios de habla en desarrollo

  1. Milagros Fernández-Pérez 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

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Revista:
RILCE: Revista de filología hispánica

ISSN: 0213-2370

Ano de publicación: 2020

Volume: 36

Número: 2

Páxinas: 651-673

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.15581/008.36.2.651-73 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: RILCE: Revista de filología hispánica

Resumo

This paper emphasizes the importance of composition over quantity in child language corpora. The ‘representativeness’ guaranteed in corpora of spoken language usually concerns only the quantitative aspects of the data, the qualitative properties associated to the nature of those corpora being not always well defined. Particularly, they are barely considered in language development corpora. The present, theoretical-methodological contribution explains the need of attributing relevance to child language samples, by using qualitative criteria related to the peculiar characteristics of the language- in-process. Child language is not documented enough, so rather than “reference corpora”, guaranteed to be quantitatively representative, child language corpora are valuable due to the meaning of the samples and their peculiar properties. More concretely, three aspects are argued to be of relevance in the data of a language acquisition corpus: (a) evolutionary records of longitudinal data; (b) variables of idiomatic context and usual environment, responsible of the input; and (c) dense sampling, or with a diversity of individuals, that can reveal relevant patterns and not only the most frequent ones.

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