Abstract
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 This paper describes The Corpus of Lithuanian Children’s Language and its possible applications for modern studies on the first language acquisition. First of all, the procedure of data collection for the Corpus is discussed. Furthermore, the main methodological principles of longitudinal and experimental data compilation and transciption are decribed. Finally, different studies in developmental psycholinguistics which have been carried out so far and which demonstrate possible ways of the application of the Corpus data for different scientific purposes are introduced.
 The Corpus of Lithuanian Children’s Language developed at Vytautas Magnus University comprises typical and atypical, longitudinal and experimental data of the Lithuanian language development. The Corpus was compiled using different methodological approaches, such as natural observation and semi-experiment. The longitudinal data (conversations between the target children and their caretakers) compiled according to the requirement of natural observation includes transcribed and morphologically annotated speech of two typically-developing children, one late talker, one early talker, one child from a low SES family, and a pair of twins. The data was collected during the period of 1993–2017 and and it can be divided into three cohorts. The semi-experimentaldata (~ 124 hours) comes from numerous studies in narratives and spontaneous dialogues elicited from typically-developing and language-impaired monolingual and bilingual (pre-) school age children.
 From the very beginning of data collection for the The Corpus of Lithuanian Children’s Language, studies in the develomental changes of typical child language have been carried out. Over the past decade, these studies have been supplemented by statistical analysis of elicited semi-experimental data; the majority of these studies deal with typical vs. atypical (delayed or impaired) language acquisition and with differences between acquision of Lithuanian in a monolingual vs. bi-/polylingual settings.
 The paper provides an overview of data of The Corpus of Lithuanian Children’s Language, which have been collected from 1993 but still needed to be structurized according to the employed methodology of data compilation and possible applications for different scientific purposes.
Highlights
Systematic psycholinguistic studies on Lithuanian-speaking children’s language started in 1993 and initially were based on longitudinal data of two Lithuanian children (Savickienė 1999; Wójcik 2000)
Experimental psycholinguistic studies in the Lithuanian language acquisition started in 2006, when Lithuania was involved in the international projects COST Action
Developmental psycholinguistics was introduced in Lithuania only two decades ago and started with two longitudinal case-studies
Summary
Systematic psycholinguistic studies on Lithuanian-speaking children’s language started in 1993 and initially were based on longitudinal data of two Lithuanian children (Savickienė 1999; Wójcik 2000). Along with the development of The Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian and the adaptation of the CHAT (MacWhinney 2017a) software for the Lithuanian language (Dabašinskienė & Kamandulytė 2009), a great amount of data of Lithuanian-speaking children’s language has been collected and prepared for an automatized linguistic analysis. The Corpus of Lithuanian Children’s Language comprises typical and atypical, longitudinal and experimental data of the Lithuanian language development. Experimental data (~ 124 hours) comes from numerous studies in narratives and spontaneous dialogues elicited from TD and language-impaired (LI) monolingual and bilingual (pre-) school age children. The aim of this paper is to give a structurized description of The Corpus of Lithuanian Children’s Language with the main focus on methodological approaches to data compilation and on the most prominent ways of its application for the modern studies on language acquisition
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