checking codes

[Christian Champaud]

Dear Info-ChiBolts,

We are in the process of coding transcriptions of French-speaking and 
bilingual children in order to study the development of some spatial 
expressions. I would be glad to check if some words, which appear in the 
productions (the main line), were not forgotten in the coding tier, and, if 
it was the case, to retrieve the lines and correct them. As I was not 
entirely successful in my previous attempts, it would be helpful for us if 
some of you can suggest a way to cope with this problem.
Our coding tier %cod is hierarchical and made up of ten levels or fields 
separated by colons. Levels code several things like the situation, the 
verb, the possible expression of a figure and a ground, etc. For instance, 
the fifth level codes some spatial expressions like prepositions and 
adverbs: the occurrence of the French preposition “dans” (in) will be coded 
“
:SEP|dans:
”, “SEP” standing for “Spatial Expression, Preposition”. So, I 
want to retrieve automatically (with combo or kwal and pipes) all the main 
lines containing “dans” where the dependent tier %cod does not contain 
“SEP|dans” as its fifth level, and only these lines. So far, I had 
difficulties to specify properly this last constraint (I tried with “!”, 
but perhaps I made errors specifying its scope).

Hope my English is understandable,

Christian.
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