<div dir="ltr">I agree with Brian's suggestions. The only other thing I would add is where these extraneous words arise from - are they reformulations? Who are these speakers? In this case, you might want to use revision markers. Or, if circumlocutions, the disfluency prefix that Brian just supplied.<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nan Bernstein Ratner, F-, H-ASHA, F-AAAS, ABCLD</div><div>Professor</div><div>Hearing and Speech Sciences</div><div>University of Maryland</div><div>0100 Lefrak Hall</div><div>College Park, MD 20742</div><div><a href="mailto:nratner@umd.edu" target="_blank">nratner@umd.edu</a>, 301-405-4217 <a href="https://umd.zoom.us/j/7924324343" target="_blank">My Zoom</a></div><div><br></div><div>Co-director: FluencyBank (<font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://www.fluency.talkbank.org" target="_blank">www.fluency.talkbank.org</a></font>); <a href="http://languagefluency.umd.edu/" target="_blank">http://languagefluency.umd.edu/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Immediate Past President, International Fluency Association (IFA; <a href="http://theifa.org" target="_blank">http://theifa.org</a>)</div><div>Director, University of Maryland Autism Research Consortium (UMARC), <a href="http://www.autism.umd.edu" target="_blank">www.autism.umd.edu</a></div><div>Faculty, Language Science (<a href="http://languagescience.umd.edu" target="_blank">languagescience.umd.edu</a>; Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuroscience (NACS, <a href="http://nacs.umd.edu" target="_blank">nacs.umd.edu</a>), Developmental Science Field Committee</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://hesp.umd.edu/facultyprofile/bernstein-ratner/nan" target="_blank">https://hesp.umd.edu/facultyprofile/bernstein-ratner/nan</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1-UVaaDdREZ/bibliography/40436718/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending" target="_blank">My PubMed Bibliography</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 3:25 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">Matteo,<br>
It is surprising that we hadn’t already developed a code specifically for this. However, it is easy to add a special form marker for this purpose. User-defined special form markers begin with the letter “z”. It could be @z:ex for extraneous or whatever you wish. Page 47 of the CHAT manual describes this and says, "User-defined special forms can be marked with @z, followed by up to five letters of a user-defined code, such as in word@z:rftd. MOR will ignore or "skip" the user code and process the word.”<br>
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*CHI: I went to@z:ex swimming to the@z:ex Spain.<br>
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If however, you want MOR to really ignore the word, you could have<br>
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*CHI: I went &to_ex swimming to &the_ex Spain.<br>
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Because MOR ignores non-words beginning with &.<br>
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— Brian MacWhinney<br>
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> On Sep 15, 2021, at 11:23 AM, Matteo Fiorini <<a href="mailto:matteo.fiorini@utah.edu" target="_blank">matteo.fiorini@utah.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Dear all, <br>
> <br>
> how could I mark a previous word as unnecessary?<br>
> The following is an example:<br>
> <br>
> Target sentence: I went swimming to Spain<br>
> Utterance: I went to swimming to the Spain<br>
> <br>
> I'd add a code like [:: _] after the relevant word, signalling it in the comment line, but I was wondering if there was already an option for that. <br>
> <br>
> Thank you,<br>
> Matteo<br>
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