<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Nan,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes, you are right.  MLT will do this.  I tested on this small sample from Janet and it reports 3 turns for MOT and 3 for CHI.<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 21, 2018, at 11:32 AM, Nan Bernstein Ratner <<a href="mailto:nratner@umd.edu" class="">nratner@umd.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Wouldn't that be Mean Length of Turn? (MLT program?)<div class="">N</div><div class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Nan Bernstein Ratner, F-, H-ASHA, F-AAAS, ABCLD</div><div class="">Professor</div><div class="">Hearing and Speech Sciences</div><div class="">University of Maryland</div><div class="">0100 Lefrak Hall</div><div class="">College Park, MD 20742</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:nratner@umd.edu" target="_blank" class="">nratner@umd.edu</a>, 301-405-4217</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Co-director: FluencyBank (<font color="#0000ff" class=""><a href="http://www.fluency.talkbank.org/" target="_blank" class="">www.fluency.talkbank.org</a></font>);  <a href="http://languagefluency.umd.edu/" target="_blank" class="">http://languagefluency.umd.edu/</a>  </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">President, International Fluency Association (IFA; <a href="http://theifa.org/" target="_blank" class="">http://theifa.org</a>)</div><div class="">Director, University of Maryland Autism Research Consortium (UMARC), <a href="http://www.autism.umd.edu/" target="_blank" class="">www.autism.umd.edu</a></div><div class="">Faculty, Language Science (<a href="http://languagescience.umd.edu/" target="_blank" class="">languagescience.umd.edu</a>; Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuroscience (NACS, <a href="http://nacs.umd.edu/" target="_blank" class="">nacs.umd.edu</a>), Developmental Science Field Committee</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://hesp.umd.edu/facultyprofile/bernstein%20ratner/nan" target="_blank" class="">http://hesp.umd.edu/facultyprofile/bernstein%20ratner/nan</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1-UVaaDdREZ/bibliography/40436718/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending" target="_blank" class="">My PubMed Bibliography</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 8:34 PM Janet Bang <<a href="mailto:jbang@stanford.edu" class="">jbang@stanford.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">




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</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">We are trying to see if there's a way to automate a count of turns between a child and an adult within a transcript. We saw that with CHIP, we can get the number of responses to a child's utterance, but this value counts
 multiple utterances as separate responses, rather than one turn. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class="">
</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">For example, for the following interaction we would count 5 turns: </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">MOT-CHI</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">CHI-MOT (MOT has 4 utterances, but count as 1 turn)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">MOT (same MOT as one above)-CHI</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">CHI-MOT</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">MOT-CHI</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class="">
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<div class="">*MOT:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>come here !</div>
<div class="">*CHI:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>xxx .</div>
<div class=""><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">*MOT:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">
</span><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">come here let's sing the A_B_C_s@s .</span><br class="">
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<div class="">*MOT:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>ready ?</div>
<div class="">*MOT:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>a@l b@l c@l d@l . </div>
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<div class="">*MOT:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>you don't want to sing ?</div>
<div class="">*CHI:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>no .</div>
<div class="">*MOT:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>are you sure ?</div>
<div class="">*CHI:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>no .</div>
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</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Is there some way to combine MLT and CHIP to get a value that represents turns as above? If that is too difficult, we could also go without the responses serving as the initiation of the next turn, meaning that the this
 would be 3 turns as in:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">MOT-CHI</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">MOT(1 turn, 4 utterances)-CHI</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">MOT-CHI</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class="">
</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Apologies if I've missed this in another function, </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Janet</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class="">
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