<div dir="ltr">Dear Brian,<div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for your prompt and helpful response. I do have one more question. <b>Is there a way to batch edit CHAT files? </b>For instance, my transcribers used different ways to code unintelligible utterances and I want them to revise those instances to assure consistency in coding. However, they have already transcribed hundreds of files and it is really time-consuming to go back and edit them one by one. </div><div><br></div><div>I would really appreciate any help or guidance on that.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Elnaz</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#00386c">Elnaz
Kia, Ph.D</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#00386c">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#00386c"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#00386c">(she,
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Website</span></a><span><span style="color:#0d0d0d"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1-im6hnX4Kj15S9S-Fy7_gMFj4Nn-RGP_&revid=0B56lCp579fCjaXhEQlhaSndZdjgxWDRrRk8wMWFHN0wydGFZPQ"></p></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 3:56 PM Brian Macwhinney <<a href="mailto:macw@andrew.cmu.edu">macw@andrew.cmu.edu</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">Dear Elnaz,<br>
<br>
      Yes, it is okay to use repetitions of xxx, if you want to mark the fact that several words are unintelligible.  Many analyses exclude sentences with unintelligible segments, so it doesn’t really matter in such cases whether you have just xxx or xxx xxx.  However, representing how many words are missing might be helpful when listening to the audio.<br>
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— Brian MacWhinney<br>
Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, <br>
Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU<br>
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> On Apr 22, 2021, at 6:50 PM, Elnaz Kia <<a href="mailto:ek325@nau.edu" target="_blank">ek325@nau.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Hi everyone,<br>
> <br>
> I have a question about coding unintelligible language with xxx. Here is my understanding based on the 2020 CHAT instruction manual (MacWhinney, 2020): <br>
> <br>
> - If a complete utterance is fully unintelligible, I should mark the utterance with xxx.<br>
> - If I am able to tell the number of words that are unintelligible, then I should use that many strings of xxx. For instance, if the utterance is “I am a teacher” and I can only get the “I am” part, but I hear 2 other words that are unintelligible, then I should code the sentence like this:<br>
> “I am xxx xxx.” <br>
> - I can use as many xxx strings as I want for the number of words that are unintelligible. <br>
> <br>
> Would you confirm my understandings?<br>
> <br>
> Thank you,<br>
> Elnaz<br>
> <br>
> Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)<br>
> Post-Doctoral Research Associate<br>
> Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC)<br>
> University of Utah<br>
> LinkedIn<br>
> Personal Website<br>
> <br>
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