question on vocd: variations of base words

Brian MacWhinney macw at cmu.edu
Wed Oct 6 18:51:39 UTC 2010


You can use VOCD on the main line, of course, but it will not make the distinctions you are noting.

-- Brian

On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:39 AM, RobbyZ wrote:

> Dear Brian,
> 
> In the near future, I do not have the time (and funding) to do this,
> unfortunately. Maybe after my PhD project is finished. I agree that it
> would be great to have a POST for the Dutch MOR program. I'll keep
> your request in mind.
> Do you think it would make sense though to use vocd on the main tier?
> How does vocd know what variations of the base word form are?
> Or does the +s”*-%%” switch only make sense when you use it on the MOR
> tier?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Rob
> 
> On 4 okt, 21:25, Brian MacWhinney <m... at cmu.edu> wrote:
>> Dear Rob,
>> 
>>      I recently took a peek at the Dutch MOR program and the lexicon seems quite complete.  However, because I have not
>> been maintaining it, I really don't know how well it works in practice.  More importantly, we really need to have someone create
>> a training set for Dutch so that one can use POST.  If you have any funding for this work, this would be a great thing to do and I would be happy to lend a bit of a hand too.  Steven Gillis created the current version of MOR and you could check with him too to get his ideas.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> -- Brian MacWhinney
>> 
>> On Oct 4, 2010, at 6:14 AM, RobbyZ wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> I want to check the vocabulary diversity in my narratives of Dutch
>>> children with SLI. Since these narratives all differ in length, I
>>> thought a good way to do this would be to use the vocd programme. I
>>> have made an exclude file. It all works fine, but my question is how
>>> the programme deals with variations of a base word (using the +s”*-%%”
>>> switch)? How can the programme know that 'to sleep' (slapen) in Dutch
>>> can take all these forms: slaap, slaapt, slapen, sliep, sliepen,
>>> geslapen? I want to run the programme on the t*CHI line, because for
>>> Dutch the MOR line has to be disambiguated by hand and I have loads of
>>> files (180 SLI and 270 controls).
>>> Do I have to make a special file with all these different word form or
>>> is vocd very clever?
>>> Thanks for your help!
>> 
>>> Rob Zwitserlood
>> 
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