Type/token ration question

[Leonid Spektor]

Emma,

Try the following command:

freq +t*MOT +t%mor -t* +s at r-*,o-% A.Z.visit3.mor.pst.cex

For more information and examples of +s@ option type in commands window:

freq +s@

Leonid.

On 29-05-09 11:38, "E C Kelty" <eckelty at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> I have a question about measuring type/token ratios of linguistic
> forms using CLAN.  I have transcripts of mother/child speech, and I am
> trying to calculate MLUs as well as frequencies of wh-questions,
> auxiliary verbs, and a few other things.  I am wondering if there is a
> way to run these commands so that, for example, "did" and "didn't" are
> counted as two different tokens of the same word type.
> 
> Here is an output that I got when searching for auxiliary verbs:
> 
> freq +t*MOT +t%mor +saux|* A.Z.visit3.mor.pst.cex
> Thu May 28 15:12:26 2009
> freq (18-Jul-2008) is conducting analyses on:
>   ONLY speaker main tiers matching: *MOT;
> and those speakers' ONLY dependent tiers matching: %MOR;
> ****************************************
> From file <A.Z.visit3.mor.pst.cex>
>   2 aux|be&PRES
>   4 aux|can
>  10 aux|do
>   8 aux|do&3S
>   1 aux|do&3S~neg|not
>   4 aux|do&PAST
>   3 aux|do~neg|not
> ------------------------------
>     7  Total number of different word types used
>    32  Total number of words (tokens)
> 0.219  Type/Token ratio
> 
> Could I write a command that would count all those examples of "do" as
> the same type, thus giving me an overall type count of 3 and token
> count of 32?
> 
> Any information or direction towards other places where I could learn
> about this would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Emma Kelty
> emma.kelty at uconn.edu
> 
> > 
> 



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