8 TalkBank Resources for Psycholinguistic Analysis and Clinical Practice

The formation of a network of Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) can contribute in many important ways to the advancement of the study of language structure, usage, processing, and acquisition. The chapters in this book present a comprehensive overview of various efforts to build this new structure. The current chapter will show how the TalkBank system has already succeeded in realizing many of these goals and could eventually support still others. TalkBank had its origins in 1985 with the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES), founded by Brian MacWhinney and Catherine Snow; both the first and second author of this chapter continue to work to enlarge and maintain its growing resources.