updating English %mor

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES,

    I have just now finished updating the %mor lines for the various  
English corpora in CHILDES.  The original %mor lines were created  
about 15 months ago and there have been improvements in MOR coding,  
tagging, the lexicon, and POST in the meantime.  These new codes will  
be used for an upcoming parser competition sponsored by the  
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), so that was an  
additional motivation for completing this updating.  In addition, I  
have updated the English MOR grammar on the server.
    In the current version, all errors are marked directly on the  
main line, using replacements and the [*] notation, as in this example

broked [: broke] [* +ed-sup]

Also, the distinction between interjections (that often appear alone)  
and communicators (that often attach to utterances) is made a bit  
clearer.  More generally, derivational structure is analysed further  
in the new version, particularly for diminutives and items that  
change parts of speech through derivation.  By the way, is there a  
word for this?

-- Brian MacWhinney