chstring

[Anna Gudmundson]

Dear Brian et al.

I'm trying to replace all occurences of  "@s" to "@sv", but I can't make it 
work.  We have used the sign @s to indicate code switching from itaian to 
swedish in our transcriptions, but now we would like to change it to @sv. 
There are several similar changes that need to be made so I really would 
like to know what I'm doing wrong. This is what it looks like:

*ANN: c'è tanto di più di questa # närhet at s.

I would like to change @s into @sv to make the utterance look like:

*ANN: c'è tanto di più di questa # närhet at sv.

I have created a file named 'changes.cut' and it looks like:

"@s " "@sv "

with no spaces before the @-signs.

and then i run the command:

chstring +c "filename"

but no changes are being made. If I instead create a 'changes.cut' file 
that looks like:

" tanto "  " tantoo "

and run the same command as above, the changes are being made.

I thought chstring would work on parts of words like @s, and not only on 
complete words. I've also tried "_*@s " "_*@sv ", but it doesn't work. What 
am I doing wrong??

Many thanks in advande

Anna Gudmundson
Stockholm university 
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