<div dir="ltr">Thank you -it really did! I tried this code and it allowed me to see by speaker the produced stems with regular past tense morphology. I substituted -PAST for &PAST and this allowed the same for irregular past tense. Then I changed it to -t*, as I'm curious about a correlation between input on production over time and it allowed me to see the information I was after.<br><br>On Tuesday, 12 November 2019 15:45:58 UTC, Davida  wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'm not sure this is the most elegant/efficient way to write the 
command, but I think this works ... if I'm understanding the output you 
want.  Hope it helps.<br></div><div>freq +sm|v:*,|v,;*,-PAST +t*CHI +u *.cha</div><div><div><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/bmXRV8U_rvsrPro4DPGFB69kd64mPUlaHL87vQtq_GAuJjcmUkNXeaKyEx7hvg1C5Tift0qXrd0-iJixautq_siUL9GltfUhIT6ggIHnlQ=w5000-h5000"></div></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Davida</div></font></span></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 10:26 AM 'Harry Caulton' via chibolts <<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="KtWh7asRBAAJ" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;">chib...@googlegroups.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto">I am attempting to isolate verbs by morphological type in the Brown corpus starting with the past tense. I have found that using:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto">freq +sm|*v - t*CHI +u *.CHA</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto">It allows me to isolate verb stems and all morphological suffixes. However, when I change this code to:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto">freq +sm;*v,|-past - t*CHI +u *.CHA</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto">I get 0 results. Which is confusing as I've added the marker for regular past tense morphology which should logically yield all regular past test verbs. I've reread the CLAN and MOR manuals but I cannot seem to find anything related to where to place the relevant information in the code.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto">Would anyone be able to assist me here? Many thanks in advance for your time.</div></div>

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