<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I'm an SLP at a preschool. We are trying to calculate DSS on all language samples moving forward to include in our reports. My administrators had previously been calculating DSS by hand, but I'm trying to make the shift to using CLAN to analyze the samples. I was taught how to use the program in grad school for a project, but don't have much experience transcribing samples in CLAN and running the commands. I have been using the CLAN manual and SLP guide on the CHILDES website to help. When testing out the program, we compared the CLAN DSS results to a by hand calculation for a 5 line sample. The program did not include the following sentence in the DSS analysis:</div><div><br></div><div>*CHI:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sherri like [*m] pizza .<br></div><div><br></div><div>I used * m to note a morphological error, because it should be "Sherri likes pizza". Here is the result of the MOR command:</div><div><br></div><div><div>*CHI:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sherri like [* m] pizza .</div><div>%mor:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>n:prop|Sherri conj|like n|pizza .</div></div><div><br></div><div>Using the * m code after "like" to indicate a morphological error, the utterance was not included in DSS analysis.</div><div><br></div><div>I also tried transcribing it with just as asterisk to note the error:</div><div><br></div><div><div>*CHI:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sherri like [*] pizza .</div><div>%mor:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>n:prop|Sherri conj|like n|pizza .</div></div><div><br></div><div>Using this code, it was included in DSS, but given a score of 9 because "like" was counted as a conjunction, not as a verb.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm wondering if I need to transcribe it differently or use a more specific error code to get the correct analysis?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your help!</div><div><br></div><div>Kelly</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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