Bowerman diary records and audio recordings

Christy

Tape recordings: short supplementary tape recordings, with transcriptions (ages in year; month (day) format; dates in US month-day-year format). Diary entries: 21 files of notes made between age 0;3(4) and age 21;2.

Eva

Tape recordings: short supplementary tape recordings, with transcriptions (ages in year; month (day) format; dates in US month-day-year format). Diary entries: 16 files of notes made between age 1;0(9) and age 16;11(24).

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Description: Detailed diary record of Melissa Bowerman’s (1942-2011) two children’s linguistic development in the form of notes on what was developing and changing in their speech, as they went through the early stages of normal language development in Lawrence, KS. In the 1990s, Bowerman had all her diary notes transcribed for the computer: they appear in this archive as the diary entries for Christy, starting with general developmental observations from the age of 3 months on, in 1970, and for Eva, starting with the first observations of language at 1;0(9) in 1974. As the two children became older, Bowerman focussed on specific error-types she was interested in, and the diary entries became more spread out over age. One possible later influence on their language was the two years they spent in The Netherlands (from July 1978 to July 1980), before they moved there permanently in July 1982.
Bowerman also made a number of short supplementary tape recordings early on of Christy (between age 1;4 and 2;2) and Eva (between age 1;6 and 1;8). A listing of these recordings and their transcriptions is included here, with the nearest relevant set of diary entries for each recording. The diary data Bowerman collected formed the basis for numerous insightful articles in which she addressed many theoretical issues in early language acquisition, including adherence (or not) to standard word order, agency in passive-like constructions, the emergence of causative and periphrastic causative verbs, the relation of argument structure and linking, and the semantics of motion verbs.

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  Description : Detailed diary record of Melissa Bowerman’s (1942-2011) two children’s linguistic development in the form of notes on what was developing and changing in their speech, as they went through the early stages of normal language development in Lawrence, KS. In the 1990s, Bowerman had all her diary notes transcribed for the computer: they appear in this archive as the diary entries for Christy, starting with general developmental observations from the age of 3 months on, in 1970, and for Eva, starting with the first observations of language at 1;0(9) in 1974. As the two children became older, Bowerman focussed on specific error-types she was interested in, and the diary entries became more spread out over age. One possible later influence on their language was the two years they spent in The Netherlands (from July 1978 to July 1980), before they moved there permanently in July 1982.
  
  Description : Bowerman also made a number of short supplementary tape recordings early on of Christy (between age 1;4 and 2;2) and Eva (between age 1;6 and 1;8). A listing of these recordings and their transcriptions is included here, with the nearest relevant set of diary entries for each recording. The diary data Bowerman collected formed the basis for numerous insightful articles in which she addressed many theoretical issues in early language acquisition, including adherence (or not) to standard word order, agency in passive-like constructions, the emergence of causative and periphrastic causative verbs, the relation of argument structure and linking, and the semantics of motion verbs.