MLU analyses questions

[Janet Bang]

Thank you. Just to make sure, then if the plus is part of the default
delimiter set, this means that the MLU program will (off the %mor line)
count a word such as "jack+in+the+box" as 4 morphemes instead of 1?

and if it is transcribed as "jack_in_the_box", because the underscore is not
considered a delimiter, "jack_in_the_box" will be thought of as 1 morpheme?

Janet



On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Janet,
>     Leonid answered the first part of your question.  Regarding the second
> part, it is not clear whether you are trying to analyze the main line or the
> %mor line.  You can control the processing of the plus or the underscore by
> using the +b switch in MLU.  Presumably, the plus should be a delimiter and
> the underscore should not.   Currently, the plus is not in the default
> delimiter set, but it should be and we will change that today so that people
> don't have to think about this.
>
> -- Brian MacWhinney
>
> On Apr 14, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Janet Bang wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a couple of questions regarding MLU analyses in CLAN (version d/l
> from March 28), any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > 1. I am running MLU analyses and I am trying to exclude words in the
> morpheme count that are set up in a separate .cut file. I am using the -s
> switch such as: -s at exclude.cut in the command, but it does not seem to be
> working (when I use the same switch with the FREQ program, it does work). Is
> there a certain way the file has to be set up to exclude words for MLU? The
> "exclude.cut" file itself is located in the same working/library directory
> as the files I'm trying to analyze.
> >
> > 2. Also, is there a difference between tagging words such as
> jack+in+the+box, or jack_in_the_box for MLU? A short test sentence I ran did
> not arrive with a different MLU count.
> >
> > Thank you!
> > Janet Bang
> >
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