Neutralizing ending in word list

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Diane,
   Sorry about the delay in responding.  I guess your goal is to treat 
forms like "he'd" as if they were versions of "he".  You may be right 
that it will be tricky to do that using the % symbols.  But, before 
going in that direction, I would like to think through with you and 
others, the logic of the analysis.  Do you really want to say that the 
pronoun is the root of a cliticized form?  Isn't that going against the 
idea that there are really two full words being contracted here.  
Wouldn't it be better to use the +p option and treat the tilde ~ for 
the clitic as
a delimiter?  That was the original goal underlying the +p option and 
it would seem to apply well in this case.

--Brian MacWhinney

On Oct 5, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Leach, Diane (NIH/NICHD) wrote:

>
>
> Hi folks.
>
> I have been trying to get a list of "root words" by taking my 
> transcripts and neutralizing the endings on the %mor line.  I was 
> using the following command:
>
> freq +u +k -t* +t*CHI +t*MOT +t%mor +s"%|*" +s"%|*-%%" +s"%|*~%%" 
> "*.mor.pst"
>
> This works well except when I have words in the form 
> n|word-ENDING~CONTRACTION, such as n|dog-DIM~v|be&3S.  In this case, 
> the result is that n|dog-DIM shows up in the word list (the 
> contraction was neutralized, but not the diminutive ending).  I have 
> tried adding  +s"%|*-%%~%%" to the command line and replacing 
> +s"%|*~%%" with +s"%|*-%%~%%", but neither of these seems to work.  In 
> the first case, nothing changes, and in the second case, it 
> neutralizes the endings on the complex forms (e.g., 
> n|dog-DIM~v|be&3S), but then I still have the words with contractions 
> showing up in the word list (e.g., n|dog~v|be&3S). 
>
>  Any thoughts about how I could fix this?
>
> Thanks!
> Diane
>
>  
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