Database
Here you will find various datasets and corpora, which were created with MAIN.
MAIN · Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
ZAS-MAIN Corpus on CHILDES
Data were collected using Russian and German version of MAIN. Total 102 stories were elicited by 51 4 to 6–year-old Russian-German bilingual children, 51 in Russian and 51 in German.
More information: https://childes.talkbank.org/access/Biling/ZAS-MAIN.html
Leibniz-ZAS corpus of MAIN
The dataset is part of the narrative corpus collected at Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics. It contains transcriptions of oral narratives elicited with the MAIN in Russian, Turkish and German in the telling elicitation mode using two MAIN picture stories, Baby Birds and Baby Goats.
More information: https://zenodo.org/record/4724970#.Yf1qqKbMK5dCHILDES Russian-German ZAS Corpus
The database contains transcripts of the audio-records from the experimental study of Russian-German bilinguals’ narratives. This database is a part of a large study on acquisition of discourse coherence devices by monolingual and bilingual children.
More information: https://childes.talkbank.org/access/Biling/ZAS.htmlNarrative abilities in “left-behind” ethnic minority children in China: Evidence from Kam-Mandarin bilingual children
This deposit is part of the result of the project on narrative abilities in left-behind Kam-Mandarin bilingual children funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation between 2020 and 2022. This is a collaborative work of the principal investigator Wenchun Yang, Co-Investigators Angel Chan and Natalia Gagarina, and a group of native speakers who were involved in the data collection and transcription. The deposit consists of transcriptions of stories from left-behind Kam-Mandarin bilingual children aged 5 to 9. Forty stories were elicited by using the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN), 20 in Kam and 20 in Mandarin.
More information: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/k6970w8o-5q3e-7699–9042–g15b2s31667x