Precodes and continuation markers

[Brian MacWhinney]

On Dec 7, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Kevin Donnelly wrote:

> Hi Brian
> 
> ::::On Wednesday 07 December 2011 Brian MacWhinney said::::
>> If one defines mixed as meaning that one or more words in an utterance come
>> from the other language, then just looking for utterances with @s would
>> tell you whether something is mixed.  Isn't that true?
> 
> If you have a predominantly English text, where English is a null marker, and 
> then you get a line of Spanish, tagged @s:spa, in which one or more words are 
> indeterminate (ie occur in both English and Spanish dictionaries - this may 
> match Erika's unassigned), tagged @s:eng&spa, you would have only @s tags, and 
> this would count as mixed.  But if you had another line of Spanish with no 
> indeterminates, you would also have only @s tags, and this would count as 
> Spanish.  So counting only @s may be deficient.

If you have a line full of nothing but Spanish words, you are supposed to code that
with the precode [- spa].  In that case, there would be no @s words on that line and
it would not count as mixed.

-- Brian

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