Looking for turn in a transcript

[Emily]

Hi,

Thanks. I tried the command (kwal +t*CHI +d +o@ filename) to generate all the
turns made by *CHI last time. Interestingly, the total number of turns in this
output file is different from the total number of turn given by the command
(mlt +t*CHI filename). I even attempted to include those turns containing < >
[/] or [//] which are by default excluded but it didn't work.

Have you any ideas about it? Finding out the total numbers of turns of the
files is important for me as I want to get a portion of the data files of same
number of turns.

Emily Yiu
>===== Original Message From Diane Pesco <dpesco2 at po-box.mcgill.ca> =====
>You should be able to kwal out 133 utterances using a command like kwal
>+d +o@ +t*CHI +z133u filename then do analyses on kwal'ed version.  You
>can also create gems within your file (e.g. insert to file @bg:
>133utterances at the outset and an @eg: 133utterances after the 133rd
>utterance; then you can run the freq command on the gem.  Hope this helps!
>Diane Pesco
>
>Emily wrote:
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>>Dear all,
>>
>>I have problem in looking for a particular turn of a participant in a CHAT
>>file, e.g. I want to find out the 133th turn produced by the tier *CHI. Can
>>you suggest how I can do it? I want to do so because I'd like to shorten
some
>>CHAT files to a certain length in terms of turn.
>>
>>Moreover, how can I generate upper bound for each file?
>>
>>Emily Yiu
>>Department of Linguistics
>>University of Hong Kong
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>Diane Pesco
>School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
>McGill University
>dpesco2 at po-box.mcgill.ca
>tel. 514-398-4102
>fax. 514-398-8123