calculating interruptions

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Johanna,
   I guess you have to just do this the hard way.  You need
to use of postcode like [+ int] to mark the interruption and then
you use FREQ to do the counting.  If you really mean something different
such as child utterance between two adult utterances, then there might
be a method for doing that through CHAINS, but I would never define normal back and forth as "interruption."

--Brian MacWhinney

> Dear Info-CHIBOLTS Listserv,
> 
> We are interested in calculating the number of times the child interrupts
> the adult during a language sample. What coding options would you suggest
> for this?
> 
> Thank you very much, Johanna Price
> 
> -- Johanna Price, PhD, CCC-SLP Postdoctoral Research Fellow Frank Porter
> Graham Child Development Institute & Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research
> Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 105 Smith Level Rd, CB #
> 8180 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8180 (919) 843-7685
> 
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