Kurland-BATS Corpus

Jacquie Kurland Communication Disorders Department University of Massachusetts Amherst jkurland@comdis.umass.edu

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Citation information

Kurland, J., Liu, A., & Stokes, P. (2023). Phase I test development for a brief assessment of transactional success in aphasia: methods and preliminary findings of main concepts in non-aphasic participants. Aphasiology, 37(1), 39-68. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02687038.2021.1988046?needAccess=true

Kurland J, Liu A, Varadharaju V, Stokes P, & Cavanaugh R (2024). Reliability of the brief assessment of transactional success in communication in aphasia. Aphasiology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2024.2351029

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General Overview

This corpus includes three types of discourse:

1. story retells by persons with aphasia (PWA) after watching and/or listening to short video/audio clips;
2. short conversations - what Carragher et al. (2023) refer to as ‘co-constructed communication’ – wherein the PWA and a familiar or unfamiliar conversation partner (CP) jointly co-construct the story of what the PWA just watched/listened to; and
3. story retells by the CP immediately following the approximately six-minute conversations.

The stimuli are from the Brief Assessment of Transactional Success (BATS; Kurland, Liu, & Stokes, 2023) and include 16 short video and audio clips from four different stimulus types, including humorous or ‘feel-good’ stories, ‘how to’ videos, biographical news clips, and interviews. The four types of stimuli vary along a continuum of dependency on verbal comprehension for understanding the stories.