The LIPPS Project
Language Interaction in Plurilingual and Plurilectal Speakers
and
LIDES Database
Language Interaction Data Exchange System
What
is LIPPS?
More
about LIPPS/LIDES for new users
Information
and links for advanced users of LIDES
Sample
files from the LIDES corpora
The LIPPS Group (Language Interaction in Plurilingual and Plurilectal Speakers) is an international group of researchers whose long term aim is to set up a computerised database of bilingual mixed-language (code-switching) data which will be available to all researchers, and to develop appropriate transcription standards and software to enable the maximum development and use of the database. The group was set up in 1994.
In 2000 the LIPPS Group published the LIDES Coding Manual, ‘A Document for Preparing and Analysing Language Interaction Data’, as a special issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism (Volume 4, Number 2 June, 2000; ISSN 1367-0069). The LIDES Coding Manual contains the recommendations developed so far for transcribing and encoding bilingual data. The LIDES recommendations are based on an successful existing system for child language data, CHILDES.
Could LIPPS be of interest to me?
It could, if you have bilingual or multilingual data or want to do research on such data. The LIPPS guidelines can provide you with a ready-made system of transcription, and if you follow the recommended format, you will also be able to run computer programs (freely downloadable) which can help you to analyse your data. LIPPS also aims to establish a database of language interaction data in standard format, which will be available to anyone doing research in this field. You will be able to use the data in the database which others have collected and transcribed, and if you have suitable data of your own, we encourage you to share it with other researchers by placing it in the database.
Who is involved in LIPPS?
The LIPPS group has a Steering Committee and an Advisory Committee. The LIDES Coding Manual was the joint work of 11 authors (to see their photographs, click here). Anyone is welcome to become involved with LIPPS and LIDES if they have an interest in the area.
Comments
and questions about LIPPS and LIDES
may be sent to any
of the Steering Committee: Mark
Sebba, Melissa Moyer, Roeland
van Hout, Penelope
Gardner-Chloros.
View a short tutorial slide show about LIPPS/LIDES
Read the Foreword, Contents page and Chapter 1 of the LIDES Coding Manual.
Easy LIDES: getting started with transcription
Quick
guide to transcription symbols
The
CHILDES Database (US site)
The
CHILDES Database (Belgian site)
Click below to download:
The
CHILDES Depfile
The
LIDES minimal 00Depadd file
You can download sample data files in the CHAT format for research purposes or to practice using LIDES.
New in October 2002! Large sample of data from a community of Austrian Jewish refugees from Nazi occupied Austria who settled in Northwest London in the late 1930s. Collected, transcribed and coded by Eva Eppler