partially unintelligible utterances

Brian MacWhinney macw at cmu.edu
Fri Oct 12 23:34:10 UTC 2007


-sxxx and -sxx should do this, as long as you followed the rules for
marking unintelligibility.
Check out the manual on MLU.

--Brian

On Oct 12, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Jamie Smith wrote:

> I was trying to get CLAN to exclude interrupted, abandoned, and
> partially unintelligible utterances from its analyses of a batch of
> transcripts. I used CHSTRING to change +/ and +... into +/ [+bch]
> and +... [+bch], which worked swimmingly. Not so for unintelligible
> utterances, unfortunately, since the unintelligible bit can be
> anywhere in the utterance.
>
> So my question is whether there's a way to exclude those
> utterances, and not just the unintelligible parts of them. Thanks
> for your help.
>
> Jamie
>
> On 10/12/07, Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> Jamie,
>     Do you mean position of the postcode in the command or in the
> file.? In the file, it should be after the final delimiter.  If you
> run CHECK,
> it will complain if you have done something wrong.  In the command,
> you just want to add -s"[+ bch]" . The complete story on
> ways to use postcodes is given in Tables 4-6 in section 9.5 pages
> 119-120 of the current version of the electronic manual.
>
> Good luck,
>
> --Brian MacWhinney
>
> On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Jamie Smith wrote:
>
> > I'd like to tell CLAN to disregard any partially unintelligible
> > utterances in a transcript. I experimented with using CHSTRING to
> > insert [+bch], but I'm not sure how to get the postcode into the
> > right position. Any tips?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > Jamie in Illinois
> >
> > >
>
> >


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