Jamila Minga
Communication Disorders
Duke University
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Jamila Minga Communication Disorders Duke University |
| Participants: | 29 RHD, 21 neurologically healthy |
| Type of Study: | Unfamiliar Object Task -- question production |
| Location: | USA |
| Media type: | some video |
| DOI: | doi:10.21415/9HPT-EP68 |
In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus
must be accompanied by at least one corpus reference. If none is given,
please use the primary AphasiaBank reference:
MacWhinney, B., Fromm, D., Forbes, M. & Holland, A. (2011).
AphasiaBank: Methods for studying discourse. Aphasiology,
25,1286-1307.
The Unfamiliar Objects task requires participants to view images of objects and generate questions to determine the purpose of the object. Pictures of these objects are located here.
The participants' questions were transcribed in CHAT and coded (on a coding tier in the transcript) using a portion of Stivers & Enfield’s question-response coding scheme (2010). Specifically, questions were coded as either polar (positive or negative), alternative, or content (who, what, when, where, and why).
Some of the RHD and neurologically healthy participants are from the RHDBank database and did this task as part of the standard discourse protocol. Their files have the name "minga" or "nazareth" in them. The others did this task as part of another study and have numerical filenames such as 101". Videos are available for RHDBank participants only. The media file links given above are the full RHDBank discourse protocol recordings. The transcripts are time-linked to the media files and will play the relevant section.
The non-protocol transcripts have gem markers indicating which object is being described. The protocol transcripts do not have gem markers.
Demographic data and test score spreadsheets are included in the folder with downloaded transcripts from here for RHD participants and from here for controls.