• Monolingual environment – specifically, the mother language for the family members and nanny (in case if the child has a nanny) needs to be Georgian. Language environment for the child also needs to be
  Georgian.
• Socially sustained families, from Tbilisi (to avoid dialects), parents with formal education
• At the time of the start of the project participants need to meet criteria of age appropriate development in all develomental areas confirmed by relevant check ups and assessment tools (Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System for Infants and Children (AEPS®), translated and adapted to Georgian).
• If possible, gender balance will be considered.

Data collection would involve monthly video recording of 5 hour per child linguistic samples. The children will be videotaped/audiotaped for 5 hours during each 3rd week of a month during the times when they are more actively engaged in talking. Obtained video/audio data will be archived, transcripted and uploaded on the corpus. Selection criteria for participants of the study: - Monolingual environment – specifically, the mother language for the family members and nanny (in case if the child has a nanny) needs to be Georgian. Language environment for the child also needs to be Georgian. - Socially sustained families, from Tbilisi (to avoid dialects), parents with formal education - At the time of the start of the project participants need to meet criteria of age appropriate development in all develomental areas confirmed by relevant check ups and assessment tools (Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System for Infants and Children (AEPS®), translated and adapted to Georgian). - If possible, gender balance will be considered. Prior to data collection family members will be trained how to conduct recordings by the project team. Parental consent letters will be signed by parents indicating that the recordings will be used by ISU linguistic lab and Child Development Institute, considering ethical issues. The research assistants will keep in close touch with the family contact person, and caretaker-recorders will be encouraged to maintain a natural and spontaneous atmosphere throughout recording situations. They will be also instructed to specify the exact situation in which recording took place at the outset and in the course of each session. Families will be monthly rewarded by small payments. During the first 6 months one pilot record will be made, processed and entered into the database. All technical and content related issues arisen after piloting will be considered in future work. The corpus will be modified according to the data received.