Welsh Acquisition Database Data

Children	Ages	Numbers of files	Hours of recording about ½ hour per recording	Names of the files	Size of files
Southern
Bethan	1;7.28 - 2;4.23	24	12 hours	bethan01-24	280kb
Melisa	1;6.17 - 2;3.23	26	13 hours	melisa01-26	314kb
Rhian	1;6.20 - 2;3.17	25	12.5 hours	rhian0-25	324kb
Northern
Alaw	1;6.08 - 2;3.21	27	13.5 hours	alaw01-27	584kb
Dewi	1;9.21 - 2;6.09	29	14.5 hours	dewi06-38	531kb
Elin	1;5.08 - 1;9.20	11	5.5 hours	elin01-11	153kb
Rhys	1;8.31 - 2;5.21	26	13 hours	rhys01-26	548kb
Totals		168	84 hours		2.67mb

The data were collected in the homes of the children: four in north Wales, and three in  mid-Wales. The children were recorded every fortnight at the beginning of the project and then every week. The recordings were transcribed in CHILDES format.

Using two locations was an attempt to include dialectal differences in the study. One researcher was familiar with northern dialects, and another was familiar with southern dialects.

The recordings of Elin were abandoned in favour of the more talkative Dewi. The latter had been the subject of a smaller-scale project in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Wales Bangor, and the audio-recordings were already available.