<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">-sxxx and -sxx should do this, as long as you followed the rules for marking unintelligibility. <DIV>Check out the manual on MLU.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--Brian</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 12, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Jamie Smith wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I was trying to get CLAN to exclude interrupted, abandoned, and partially unintelligible utterances from its analyses of a batch of transcripts. I used CHSTRING to change +/ and +... into +/ [+bch] and +... [+bch], which worked swimmingly. Not so for unintelligible utterances, unfortunately, since the unintelligible bit can be anywhere in the utterance. <BR><BR>So my question is whether there's a way to exclude those utterances, and not just the unintelligible parts of them. Thanks for your help.<BR><BR>Jamie<BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">!
On 10/12/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Brian MacWhinney</B> <<A href="mailto:macw@cmu.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">macw@cmu.edu</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <BR>Jamie,<BR> Do you mean position of the postcode in the command or in the<BR>file.? In the file, it should be after the final delimiter. If you<BR>run CHECK,<BR>it will complain if you have done something wrong. In the command, <BR>you just want to add -s"[+ bch]" . The complete story on<BR>ways to use postcodes is given in Tables 4-6 in section 9.5 pages<BR>119-120 of the current version of the electronic manual.<BR><BR>Good luck,<BR> <BR>--Brian MacWhinney<BR><BR>On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Jamie Smith wrote:<BR><BR>> I'd like to tell CLAN to disregard any partially unintelligible<BR>> utterances in a transcript. I experimented with!
using CHSTRING to <BR>> insert [+bch], but I'm not sure how to get
the postcode into the<BR>> right position. Any tips?<BR>><BR>> TIA.<BR>><BR>> Jamie in Illinois<BR>><BR>> ><BR><BR> <BR> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV><br>
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