<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="">Dear Amanda,<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""> If what you want to do is to exclude a whole utterance, then the usual method is to insert a postcode, such as [+ exc] and then you would use the command with the -s”[+ exc]” switch. I think this is a good method for whole utterance exclusion. However, you also want to exclude strings within utterances and for clarity you should use a different method for that. The only problem there with your [@g] code is the actual syntax of the code. It should instead be [% g] and then you also need to add the second switch -s"<% g>”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Brian MacWhinney</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 13, 2015, at 10:53 PM, Amanda Huensch <<a href="mailto:amandahuensch@gmail.com" class="">amandahuensch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="">Hi All-<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">We are
attempting to code some language in our transcripts such that it is ignored in
a freq count. We have narrative data which includes language that was prompted
by written text in the stories (e.g., “every morning was the same”) that we don’t
want to be included in some analyses. Sometimes the language is an entire
utterance and sometimes it is a partial utterance (examples below).<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">The current
way we are coding this language to be ignored is by using angle brackets to
select the language to be ignored and adding [@g] at the end of the line. So,
for example:<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">13 *400: <so
this is the story of Natalia and her cat Pancho> [@g] .<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">14 *400: <every
morning was the same> [@g] .<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">15 *400: Natalia
&euh read to her toys .<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">…<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">23 *400: and they went home together . <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">24 *400: <until
one day> [@g] when Pancho left the house he was scared away by a dog .</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Then, using
this command <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:
.5in">freq @ +t*1* +r6
-s"<@g>"<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">we get a
word count without that language.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">While this
seems to work for us at the moment, my concern is that when I conduct an esc+l,
I get the error message:<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">([@g]
highlighted): Symbol is not declared in the dep file<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">My questions
then are: (1) Is there a better way to accomplish this goal? or (2) Is there a
way to use this method but not get the error message?<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Thank you
for your help,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Amanda<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">PS If it is
the case that we can/should continue to code this way, do you foresee
complications with phrases that already have angle brackets (the count still appears to work). So, for example:<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">*400: and she said <<did he say France>
[= r]> [@g] ?<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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