How to get a list of all verbs in multiple transcripts after generating the .cex files?

Lulu lulusong at gmail.com
Sat Jan 18 01:42:52 UTC 2014


Dear Brian,

Somehow I typed "+l" instead of "+1" in my post command and got the .cex 
files. Your explanation is very helpful! Thanks so much!

Have a great weekend,
Lulu

On Friday, January 17, 2014 4:11:42 PM UTC-5, Brian MacWhinney wrote:
>
> Dear Lulu,
>      MOR creates .cex by default, but when I use MOR and POST, I use them 
> in combination with the +1 switch, so that my final file is still a .cha 
> file.  Whenever I do this, I keep copies of the directories along the way 
> to make sure I have backups, if I make mistakes.
>
> —Brian
>
> On Jan 17, 2014, at 4:09 PM, Lulu <lulu... at gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> Dear Brian,
>
> Thanks so much for the quick response!
>
> Just to confirm - after running POST, I got a .cex file for each .cha 
> file. But as your command suggests, I still should use the .cha files, not 
> the .cex files. If so, what
> is the use of the .cex files?
>
> Best,
> Lulu
>
> On Friday, January 17, 2014 3:48:10 PM UTC-5, Brian MacWhinney wrote:
>>
>> Dear Lulu,
>>
>>      The simplest version of the necessary command is 
>>
>> freq +t%mor +s"v|*" *.cha +u
>>
>> This gives you all the main verbs, broken up by speakers.  If you only 
>> want the child, you would add +t*CHI.  If you also want aux, mod, and cop, 
>> then you need to add +s”aux*|” etc.
>>
>> — Brian MacWhinney
>>
>> On Jan 17, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Lulu <lulu... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Happy New Year to all!
>>
>> I would like to identify all the verbs used in my transcripts. To do 
>> this, I have already run MOR and POST and generated .cex files. I suppose I 
>> then need to run KWAL on the .cex files (is that correct?). However, I'm 
>> not sure how to specify the part of speech that I am interested in.
>>
>> Thank you in advance!
>>
>> Best,
>> Lulu 
>>
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