Calculating Extratextual Utterances

[Virginia Tompkins]

Hello,

I am trying to calculate the number of utterances speakers made other than 
the text they read aloud from a book (i.e., number of extratextual 
utterances). The utterances read from the book are notated using the CHAT 
convention +". The CLAN manual says to create a file to exclude these 
utterances by creating a separate file with [+ "] listed (I noticed that 
there is a space here, whereas there is not in the CHAT manual). I have 
tried this using the command mlt +t*MOT -s at exclude.txt filename.cha where 
exclude.txt is a plain text file containing [+"]. With or without the 
space, this is not removing the lines with quoted material, but giving me 
the total number of utterances rather than just the extratextual 
utterances. Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Virginia Tompkins

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