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configs:
  - config_name: English
    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

Phonemized Child Directed Speech Dataset

This dataset contains utterance downloaded from CHILDES which have been pre-processed and converted to phonemic transcriptions by this processing script. Many of the columns from CHILDES have been preserved in case they may be 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
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.
processed_gloss The pre-processed orthographic utterance. This includes lowercasing, fixing English spelling and adding punctuation marks. This is based on the AOChildes preprocessing.
phonemized_utterance A phonemic transcription of the utterance, space-separated with word boundaries marked with the WORD_BOUNDARY token.
language_code Language code used for producing the phonemic transcriptions. May not match the language column provided by CHILDES (e.g. Eng-NA and Eng-UK tend to be transcribed with en-us and en-gb).
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 phonemized_utterance for studies comparing phonetic to orthographic transcriptions.

The last two columns 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, if you wish.

Each subset of the data is split into a training split containing most of the utterances and an in-distribution validation split containing 10,000 utterances. The following languages are included (ordered by number of phonemes):

Language Description 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 2,118 530,342 2,264,518 6,605,913 38.89
Dutch Taken from 5 corpora in the DutchAfricaans/Dutch collection of CHILDES and phonemized using phonemizer with language code nl. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 29 22,613 43,432 178,523 40.45