xx no longer marks the spot?

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Mark,
    About six months ago, we got rid of the distinction between xxx and xx.  The reason for the change had to do with the various complexities of how xx and xxx were being counted or excluded in MLU and other programs.  The only purpose of xx was to mark the number of syllables in an unintelligible string.  However, people (including myself) were not using it in this way and there was really no sense maintaining a distinction that even I couldn't keep straight in practice.

-- Brian MacWhinney

On Nov 19, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Mark Brenchley <schlemihl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've noticed that when I run CHECK on some files, the output marks the item xx as illegal. I just wanted to check that this isn't an issue with the program and that transcriptions including xx as part of the string are no longer accepted?
> 
> Best,
> Mark
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