Do you have CLAN downloaded? If not, you can get it here: http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/clan/ Before you can open any transcript files, that has to be up and running.

Then on the main CHILDES page, click on "Transcripts" under the heading "Database". Search for what you're looking for and download the .zip file. Once you open it, you can open the individual transcripts in CLAN. There is also usually a metadata file within each .zip file.

I know that Jenia Getova (a young anthropologist) is gathering data about Baby talk in Berber and Moroccan Arabic.

Jenia Getova

Corinne,

Thank you, it works!  Your kindly provided "user-guide" is very useful! Thank you a lot!

Mohamed, thank you too, I'll get in contact with the colleague, her work is for me  interesting, especially concerning Berber.

Velina

Glad it worked! :)

 Velina, if you are interested in a sample of 34 Berber baby talk items I sent last Oct. to Jenia, tell me how for me to send it to you (items with French translation + an introducing paragraph in Fr. too).

In addition to or instead of CLAN you can import or create (Childes or other) transcripts in ELAN (https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/). Elan is an annotation  Compare which program suits you best for the tasks you intend to accomplish.

Teodor

We are also using a combination of ELAN for transcription in CHAT format and CLAN to create word lists and to find utterances with particular properties. For later statistical analyses and some other data analyses, we use R. See here for some handouts on CLAN, CHAT, and ELAN: https://experimentalfieldlinguistics.wordpress.com/teaching/fieldexperiments_software/  . See here for R: https://experimentalfieldlinguistics.wordpress.com/links/statistics-and-r-blogs/