Hi Aidan,<div><br></div><div>Yes. If you want those child tiers to be time-alignable to the exact words on the recording too, create a linguistic type with the stereotype "Time Subdivision".</div><div><br></div><div>
If you don't need the child tiers to be time-alignable to exact words on the recording, create a linguistic type with the stereotype "Symbolic Subdivision." </div><div><br></div><div>Note that both of these types will completely fill the timeline of the parent annotations, meaning that you can't have a child tier with some "empty" time underneath the parent annotation. If that's something you want -- a child tier with possible time gaps under the parent annotation (say if you were only creating a special tier for pulling out one of the languages into its own tier, but not both) -- then you should create a linguistic type with the stereotype of "Included In".</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div>Andrea<br clear="all"><br>--<br>Andrea L. Berez<br><font size="1">Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics</font><br><font size="1">University of Hawai'i at Mānoa</font><div>
<font size="1">Director, Kaipuleohone UH Digital Ethnographic Archive</font></div><div><font size="1">Technology editor, <i>Language Documentation & Conservation</i><br><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www2.hawaii.edu/~aberez" target="_blank">http://www2.hawaii.edu/~aberez</a></font></font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Aidan Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aidan.wilson@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">aidan.wilson@unimelb.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hey folks,<br>
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I have yet another question regarding ELAN. I'm trying to annotate my recordings for langauge, as the recordings contain a mix of two languages, and tagging utterances for whether they're in language x or y is going to be very important. The problem is that most of the time, a single utterance will contain elements from either language. So without splitting my current annotations, I need to figure out a way of having a child tier segment an annotation within the segment that the parent tier has. I don't know if this makes sense, so here's an example of what I want:<br>
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[ngiya abim basic card arra]<br>
[I have basic card that]<br>
[T ][E ][T ]<br>
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Is this possible with the different linguistic types and stereotypes available?<br>
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Cheers,<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Aidan Wilson<br>
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School of Languages and Linguistics<br>
The University of Melbourne<br>
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<a href="tel:%2B61428%20458%20969" value="+61428458969" target="_blank">+61428 458 969</a><br>
<a href="mailto:aidan.wilson@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">aidan.wilson@unimelb.edu.au</a><br>
@aidanbwilson<br>
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