<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="">Hi Elnaz,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Your question has two aspects:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From technical point there is nothing wrong with speaker codes if they are shorter than 9 characters including the * character at the beginning. They can have numbers and/or letters in any combination you want. One way you can see if what you are doing is okay is by running CHECK command on your data files. If the result is "ALL FILES CHECKED OUT OK!", then all is good. Otherwise, you should fix whatever error is reported.<br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
>From non-technical or preferred point I will leave it to Brian MacWhinney, who designed CHAT format, to answer your question.</div><div class=""><br class="">Leonid.
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 11, 2021, at 03:22, Elnaz Kia <<a href="mailto:ek325@nau.edu" class="">ek325@nau.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hello again,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I had a question about the participant ID in CHAT. In our corpus, all the files are single-speaker and the participant ID includes 5 characters, one letter representing the language, and 4 digits representing a unique student id).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">@Begin<br class="">@Languages: zho<br class="">@Participants: c0002 IDc0002 Student<br class="">@ID: zho|corpus|c0002|0;00.00||||Student|||<br class="">@Media: c0002cadr01_1, audio<br class="">@Transcriber: Xiqiang Wang<br class="">@Comment: hum, ahn, ah, eh signal hesitation<br class="">@Situation: unspecified<br class="">*c0002: eh (..) . <br class="">*c0002: wo3 (..) . <br class="">*c0002: eh . <br class="">@End<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">According to the CHAT Manual (2021, p. 21), "After the asterisk on the main line comes a three-letter code in upper case letters for the participant who was the speaker of the utterance being coded."<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">My questions are: </b></div><div class="">1. How does the fact that our participant IDs are 5 characters and include digits affect CLAN functions?</div><div class="">2. If having more than 3 characters is okay, does it matter whether the letters are capital or small (c0002 vs. C0002)? Which one is preferred?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would appreciate any help!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Elnaz</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#00386c" class="">Elnaz
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