<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Virginia,<div> There are two separate things here. One is the utterance terminator for the second part of quotation sequences which takes the form +”.</div><div>The other is a postcode in the form [+ “]. The former occurs are the end of the utterance with no square brackets. The latter is marked after the</div><div>final delimiter. For the postcode exclusion method to work, you need to add the postcodes after each utterance to be excluded. You could use a</div><div>form such as [+ quote] or just [+ exc] instead of [+ “] as a way of marking items to be excluded with the -s@ switch.</div><div><br></div><div>— Brian MacWhinney</div><div> </div><div><div><div>On Jul 26, 2014, at 11:33 AM, Virginia Tompkins <<a href="mailto:vltompkins@gmail.com">vltompkins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>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 -<a href="mailto:s@exclude.txt">s@exclude.txt</a> 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?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Virginia Tompkins</div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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