getting restricted output

[Brian MacWhinney]

On Oct 24, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Ann Peters wrote:

> Is there any way to specify that the output from one tier be  
> restricted by
> a code on another tier?

Dear Ann,

One general solution involves "cross-tier COMBO" which is described  
in section 5.7.4 of the manual (electronic version).  As that section  
explains, you can get this to work either by creating output files  
filtered by cross-tier COMBO and then running FREQ across this files  
or else saving the intermediary file step by using the piping  
feature.  Either way will work.  The commands are not a piece of cake  
to write, as the example in that section illustrates, so I recommend  
starting with a simple sample file with just a couple of lines as you  
learn to use them.

--Brian MacWhinney

> I have coded each of my *chi main lines with another %spa tier which
> indecates whether the utterance is spontaneous ($SPONT), imitated  
> ($IM),
> or repeated ($R)). [Plus further distinctions.)
> What I would like to be able to do is one or all of the following:
> 1. Pull out all and only the main lines that have $SPONT in the % 
> spa tier.
> 2. Run FREQ only on the *chi lines that have $SPONT in the %spa tier.
> 3. Run MAXWD only on the *chi lines that have $SPONT in the %spa tier.
> Is there some automatic way to get these outputs? Actually if I  
> could do
> #! and put it in another file, then I could run FREQ and MAXWD on  
> that!
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> ann
>
>
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