Frontiers in Psychology (Nov 2021)

Creating a Corpus of Multilingual Parent-Child Speech Remotely: Lessons Learned in a Large-Scale Onscreen Picturebook Sharing Task

  • Fei Ting Woon,
  • Eshwaaree C. Yogarrajah,
  • Seraphina Fong,
  • Nur Sakinah Mohd Salleh,
  • Shamala Sundaray,
  • Suzy J. Styles,
  • Suzy J. Styles,
  • Suzy J. Styles

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734936
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12

Abstract

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With lockdowns and social distancing measures in place, research teams looking to collect naturalistic parent-child speech interactions have to develop alternatives to in-lab recordings and observational studies with long-stretch recordings. We designed a novel micro-longitudinal study, the Talk Together Study, which allowed us to create a rich corpus of parent-child speech interactions in a fully online environment (N participants = 142, N recordings = 410). In this paper, we discuss the methods we used, and the lessons learned during adapting and running the study. These lessons learned cover nine domains of research design, monitoring and feedback: Recruitment strategies, Surveys and Questionnaires, Video-call scheduling, Speech elicitation tools, Videocall protocols, Participant remuneration strategies, Project monitoring, Participant retention, and Data Quality, and may be used as a primer for teams planning to conduct remote studies in the future.

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