'feets' and the like

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Carol, Peter and DJ,

     A couple of suggestions on this.  First, I think that DJ may be  
confusing the Brown University (Kucera& Francis) corpus from Bergen  
with the Roger Brown child language corpus in CHILDES.  Second, I  
would agree with Peter regarding the efficacy of simplymaking a list  
of the forms like "feets" and searching for them directly.  For  
plurals, this is quite easy. For fun, I am attaching the relevant  
list.  Of course, this doesn't include things like "corporas" and  
such. The CLAN command to find this is

kwal +s at feets.cut +re +r5  +f *.cha

The +re would allow you to do the whole database in one command, not  
just Brown.  The +r5 is important to avoid missing the forms already  
tagged using the replacement format.  You will see what I mean when  
you run the command.  The +f outputs a file that goes into the first  
folder you examine.

The list for verbs, such as "ranned" would be much longer.  You can  
find a list of irregular verbs and make up a file for this on the  
example of feets.cut.

Good luck with this.  By the way, discussion of CHILDES program  
features is supposed to be sent to chibolts at googlegroups.com, if  
possible.


--Brian MacWhinney

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On May 2, 2008, at 7:15 PM, Carol Slater wrote:

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> Dear all:
> As a student was browsing through BROWN yesterday, he came across a  
> regular suffix applied to an irregular form. He would like to search  
> systematically for other instances of this phenomenon but I didn't  
> know what strategy to suggest: searching *CHI tiers with FREQ +s and  
> a file of regular endings preceded by * seemed to be a possibility,  
> but it is clearly one that would involve lots and lots of hand  
> searching through irrelevant hits.
> I wonder whether anyone could suggest a more graceful solution? We  
> would both be very grateful for the help.
> In hope,
> Carol Slater
>
> Dana Professor of Psychology
> Alma College
> Alma, Michigan
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