<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Annabelle,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV> Without having your exclude.cut file and the transcripts you are using, it is impossible to answer this question definitively. However, I ran this command on the ne32 directory in the CLAN samples with no problem:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>vocd +t*CHI +r1 +r6 -s@dog *.cha</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So, there is nothing particularly problematic about the +rr1 and +r6</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My guess is that the file you are using has bad markings for [/] This doesn't look like a file from the CHILDES database. So, you should make sure the file first passes CHECK.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--Brian</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:41 AM, Annabelle David wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb">Dear all</SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb">I wonder if somebody could help me. I am trying to run vocd on some transcripts. But when I run my command on certain files, I get the following message: </SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="pt-br"><FONT face="Arial">> vocd +t*P20 +r1 +r6 <A href="mailto:-s@exclude.cut">-s@exclude.cut</A> +fvoc P20AUL13.cha</FONT></SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb"><FONT face="Arial">Reading exclude file <exclude.cut> </FONT></SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb"><FONT face="Arial">retracings not successfully eliminated</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN></P><DIV><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb">And this is the command I type: vocd +t*P20 +r1 +r6 <A href="mailto:-s@exclude.cut">-s@exclude.cut</A> +fvoc P20AUL13.cha</SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb">It is inconsistent and I can’t seem to work out what the problem is. Is it likely that it is something to do with an error in the coding: i.e. the transcriber has not used the [/] or [//] appropriately? </SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb">Thanks for your help</SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb">Annabelle</SPAN></P><DIV><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><A name=""><SPAN lang="en-gb"><FONT color="#000000" size="2">------------------</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"><FONT color="#000000" size="2">Dr Annabelle David<BR> Research Associate<BR> <BR> School of Modern Languages</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"><FONT color="#000000" size="2">Old Library building (room 6.30)<BR> Newcastle University<BR> Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"><FONT color="#000000" size="2">U.K.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"><FONT color="#000000" size="2">Tel.: +44 (0)191 222 3909</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"><FONT color="#000000" size="2">Personal page:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"> <FONT size="2"><A href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/profile/annabelle.david">http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/profile/annabelle.david</A> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"><BR> <FONT color="#000000" size="2">Project on French Interlanguage Development:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"> <FONT size="2"><A href="http://www.flloc.soton.ac.uk/">http://www.flloc.soton.ac.uk/</A></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"> </SPAN></P><DIV><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN lang="en-gb"></SPAN><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>