use of & and $

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Maki,
     My version of CLAN has no trouble with $PHO on the %err line.   
Take a peak at your depfile.cut in the /lib directory.  You need to  
have the characters $* on that line.  If they are missing, you can  
insert them or else just get a new version of CLAN with a new  
depfile.cut.
     With the &tik, I think you have just bumped into a common  
annoying problem with the need for a space between &tik and the  
following period.  Your use of &tik is just fine, but please insert a  
space.

--Brian MacWhinney

On Aug 25, 2005, at 10:08 AM, Maki Yasui wrote:

> I am working for Dr. Katie Alcock looking at  older 1-yr-olds'  
> speech. We are having difficulties with getting & and $ symbols  
> recognised in our scripts- when we ran check opened file, these  
> symbols seem to be creating some problems. I have tried to describe  
> them as below:
>
> We are using $ for error tiers  (mainly phonological) so what we  
> are doing at the moment is for example:
> %err:    guck=duck $PHO
> But the system seems to reject the use of $ in this context. Does  
> anyone know how to solve this?
>
> Re: "&"
> We are probably using & for wrong things at the moment- we have  
> used it for unintelligible sounds: see an example below
> *CHI:    &tik.
> Now I realise that it's actually for phonological fragments, so  
> something other than "&" should be used. But what's best to use?  I  
> am wondering whether we should use "yyy" instead. Is it accepted  
> that we use "yy" or "yyy" and follow it by the English orthography  
> of the sounds using "%pho"? The manual seems to recommend using the  
> IPA but it doesn't seem to us really necessary for the kind of  
> analyses we are doing.
>
> Many thanks,
> Maki Yasui
>
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