摘要：AphasiaBank is is a shared, multimedia database of aphasic language (mostly in English) that has been funded since 2007 byNIH/NIDCD (MacWhinney, Fromm, Holland & Forbes 2013). AphasiaBank initially relied on methods for transcription (CHAT)and subsequent analyses (CLAN) originally developed for CHILDES, the remarkably productive database of child language thathas been in existence for over 20 years. However, as a result of the development of AphasiaBank, CHAT now includes additionalcodes specifically tailored to aphasia. AphasiaBank currently contains almost 200 extensive and uniform samples of aphasic speechand language. AphasiaBank data largely comprise a protocol of discourse tasks, and responses to them. Also included inAphasiaBank are a number of demographic variables such as type of aphasia, age, use of certain morphological or lexical features,gestural accompaniments to spoken language, change over time etc. The database is available for use by researchers /clinicians tostudy a wide range of variables important to the study of language in aphasia.
