tallying affixes

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Jamie,

    My first reaction to this was to suggest that you use the new MORTABLE program which would do most of this automatically.  However, it appears that MORTABLE is currently configured to only track the most frequent grammatical morphemes and doesn't track any of the prefixes at all.  The nice thing about MORTABLE is that it is a simple one-line command (sort of a canned program)

mortable +u *.cha   (try this on a set of files such as /MacWhinney or /Brown/Eve

which then produces an Excel spreadsheet that you can double click directly.

The bad part is that it doesn't seem to include all affixes.  Of course, there are a LOT of possible prefixes and quite a few suffixes.  So tracking all of them is going to be a really big spreadsheet.  Perhaps Leonid could configure MORTABLE to allow a user to specify which specific affixes they wish to add to the search set.  Hopefully he can chime in on this issue

--Brian

On May 4, 2011, at 7:43 PM, Jamie Smith wrote:

> I am using CLAN to analyze a batch of transcripts and I would
> appreciate a little help with FREQ syntax. Can I tell CLAN to tally
> all affixes, both prefixes like un# and suffixes like -LY? In the past
> I have made a file with a list of all target affixes, but I have been
> looking again at the section on lemmatization in the manual and
> thinking there must be a more efficient strategy. I haven't been able
> to figure out how to do it, though.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
> 
> Best,
> Jamie in Illinois
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