<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 16, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Amber <<a href="mailto:ambalashes@gmail.com" class="">ambalashes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hello all, <br class=""><br class="">I'm studying the manuals and some existing transcripts as I learn to transcribe in CLAN, and I have some questions... I want to do some basic annotation of events such as the child turning a page or pointing at a picture (not necessarily accompanied by talk). Judging by the manuals it seems I can either transcribe an event like this as a turn, as in (1), or I can do on a dependent tier, as in (2)<br class=""> <br class="">(1) *CHI: 0 [&=turns:page]<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>No need for the 0, you should just use</div><div><br class=""></div><div>*CHI:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&=turns:page .</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Which section of the manual suggests use of 0? I need to fix that.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">(2) *CHI: 0<br class="">%com: [&=points:picture]<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I would not use this latter format. Which section of the manual recommends this. I need to fix that.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">Does it matter which of these formats I use? </div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>You should use the format </div><div><br class=""></div><div>*CHI:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&=turns:page.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">And will it affect my later analyses of MLU etc (i.e., is an event counted as a turn but not an utterance if there is no accompanying talk indicated by the "0”)? </div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Material beginning with & is not counted as a word, but it is counted as a turn.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Finally, if both participants are pointing at the pictures simultaneously, would this go on a %com dependent tier?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>If you want to encode that fact, you could note it on the %com line. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>—Brian MacWhinney<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">Many thanks for your help. <br class="">Amber <br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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