Looking at questions with kwal

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Carol,
     It appears that you hit a bug in KWAL that has just recently
appeared.  The search for +s"*?" works fine in FREQ, but in KWAL this
seems to have hit some problem.  We don't see any crashing, but we do
see that it fails to find matches.  You can get around this for the
moment by adding the +y switch, but Leonid should have this bug fixed
by tomorrow afternoon, if you can try a new version then.

--Brian MacWhinney

On May 17, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Carol Slater wrote:

> Dear All,
> It has been fun introducing a group of our students to CHILDES.
> Among other things, they have been comparing caretakers' use of
> questions by using freq +s"?" to count questions and mlu to count
> utterances. They have also been trying to look at the actual
> questions, which sounds like a task for kwal.  To our dismay, +s"?"
> has been crashing the application and  +s+"?" fetches questions and
> nonquestions indiscriminately. Is kwal just not the program of
> choice here? Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> Carol
>
> Department of Psychology
> Alma  College
> Alma, MI 48801
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