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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman">Dear all,</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">thank you for your helpful comments.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">Alex François recommended me his chapter (please find attached) which explains why using a dialogue and not isolated sentences is a good idea and I fully agree. So I think it’s preferable to use the five dialogues presented
in his chapter.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">Volker Gast also suggested using multimodal stimuli to avoid translation bias. I also think that’s a good idea. So I will work on creating the cartoon version of Alex’s dialogues, which is intended to be shown to the
participant so that they can translate what’s in the speech balloons (written in a lingua franca of the speech community). This is how it will be like:</span><br>
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<img style="max-width:100%;height:auto" src="cid:C8709CBDCA504AEDABCE98F818EDCAAA"><br>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">The full version will be colored and digitalized, of course.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">Several have also pointed out that Edit distance (such as DL distance) may not be a good method. I will look into what other options may be available, or how the DL distance method can be improved. But I think with
Alex’s dialogues made into multimodal stimuli, I can collect the data first, and then decide how to analyze it later.</span></div>
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Regards,
<div dir="auto">Ian</div>
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<div name="messageReplySection">On 9 May 2021, 5:59 PM +0800, Christian Lehmann <christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de>, wrote:<br>
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Just another methodological observation: If the method involves an automatic analysis of morphological glosses, you have to control the glossing method.<br>
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For instance, your gloss<br>
<blockquote><span style="font-family:Times New Roman">1.SG be.1.SG.PRES in DET house</span><br>
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uses DET, supposedly 'Determiner'. This means that some of your glosses (like SG) identify a particular value of a morphological category (number, in this case), while others (like DET instead of DEF) identify an entire category. Your project presupposes that
you be consistent in this. See:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/ling_meth/ling_description/representations/gloss/index.php?open=class_member">https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/ling_meth/ling_description/representations/gloss/index.php?open=class_member</a><br>
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