CLAN

[Brian MacWhinney]

On 2/17/04 7:37 AM, "Cote, Linda (NIH/NICHD)" <cotel at cfr.nichd.nih.gov>
wrote:

> Good morning,
>
>
>
> Through CLAN I am trying to get FREQ counts for word roots when words are
> morphemicized on the mainline using substitution with [: ] after the
> conjugated words.  (The languages are not English, which is why I chose this
> route).  How can I instruct CLAN to ignore everything after the morpheme
> delimiters?
>
>
> Linda R. Cote, Ph.D.
>
> National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
>

Linda,
  So you have something like

*CHI:   los [: el-PL] perros [: perro-PL] comen [: come-3P].

If so, why not just use this form instead?

*CHI:   los perros comen.
%mor:   pro|el-PL n|perro-PL v|come-PL .

--Brian MacW