questions about Kideval

Li Zeng zlmailhouse at 163.com
Mon Aug 20 15:59:50 UTC 2018


thank you very much Brian. 

Li 

On Sunday, August 19, 2018 at 8:44:06 PM UTC-5, macw wrote:
>
> Li,
>
> Item #13 in KIDEVAL is about verb tokens.  
>
> TTR is simply the ratio of types divided by tokens.
>
> KIDEVAL is not designed to track utterance errors.  However, I believe 
> that it has a methiod for excluding utterances if you use the [+ exc] 
> postcode.  
>
> If you get the error message about some %mor tiers not linking in size to 
> their main tiers, this indicates that you probably ran MOR and then changed 
> something after that.  If you run MOR again, it will correct this error.
>
> --Brian MacWhinney
>
> On Aug 18, 2018, at 9:40 AM, Li Zeng <zlmai... at 163.com <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> Hello. 
>
> I ran Kideval on the sample of the child L2 English data, and came across 
> some problems. 
>
> 1) I got the excel spreadsheet of Kideval results, which look very 
> helpful. However, I want to know more about the nature (the formula) of 
> calculating the following indexes, 
>
> verb/utterances:  does it mean verb tokens or verb types divided by the 
> number of utterances?
>
> TTR: what is the formulae of measuring the type/token rate in the 
> spreadsheet result of Kideval?
>
> utterance errors:  In my transcription of the data, I postcode erroneous 
> utterances with [+ gram], but I'm not sure whether the Kideval knew that. 
> How does Kideval calculate "utterance errors"?
>
> 2) After running Kideval, I've got a warning message, shown as below: 
> WARNING: FOUND 2 %mor: TIERS THAT DO NOT LINK IN SIZE TO THEIR SPEAKER 
> TIERS.
> THIS WILL EFFECT THE RESULT OF IPSyn ANALYSES.
>
> What does it mean by "do not link in size to their speaker tiers" ? and 
> how can I fix it?
>
>
> Thank you very much. 
>
> Li 
>
>
>
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