Coding errors and omissions

[Sabrina Dunn]

Hi all,

I am new to CHAT and CLAN. I have been looking through a lot of the work
already in the CHILDES system, and I can't find consistent error or omission
coding in any child language transcripts.  In the manual, of course, I see
that there are several ways to code these.  In general, it is very important
to our data that cases of missing parts of speech and missing morphological
inflections are easy to retrieve and analyze.  Do I need to use error codes
for every occurrence that I want to be counted, or are there CLAN analysis
programs that recognize missing parts of speech, or just plain ungrammatical
constructions, like a missing plural, or bad agreement?

 

I have tried using a 0word or 0part_of_speech on the main line, but the MOR
program ignores it.

For example, 

*CHI:     I 0aux drawing . 

%mor:   pro|I v|draw-PROG .

 

I would like to see something like this come up:

%mor:   pro|I 0aux|be&1s v|draw-PROG .

 

Should I manually do this for every line?  Will it violate the on-to-one
mapping of morphological coding?  Does this just not need to be done,
because there are programs that recognize it without the 0aux?  

 

Also, when an utterance reads:

*CHI:     me do it.

%mor:   pro|me v|do pro|it.

 

Will a program recognize the error and track it, or do I have to manually
code this error?

 

Any guidance would be hugely appreciated-

 

Thanks,

Sabrina Dunn

Department of Psychology

University of Pittsburgh

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