01/10/2000 History Sociology
DOI: 10.1177/014272370002006006 SemanticScholar ID: 143789256 MAG: 1983384769

Book Reviews : The CHILDES Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk, 3rd edition. By Brian MacWhinney (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000). Hardback. Vol. 1 (pp. 366). ISBN 0-8058-2995-4; Vol. 2 (pp. 418). ISBN 0-8058-3572-5. £56.50

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Following the same blueprint of the two previous editions, Volume one of the manual is divided into two parts. Part I, Transcription Format, consists of twenty-one chapters, including a symbol summary, references and an analytical index, covering the CHAT (Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts) system in detail. According to the needs of the user, different levels of familiarity with the system will be required, and a shorter introduction to minCHAT and midCHAT is

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Prof. Ludovica Serratrice

Reading University - Professor of multilingualism

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