distance between specific turns

[Leonid Spektor]

Bobbi,

	One solution is to remove all dependent and header tiers from your data file and then unwrap all the tier. The command to remove dependent and header tiers is:

	kwal -t% -t@ +d +f *.cha

The command to unwrap tiers is:

	longtier *.kwal.cex

The resulting file *.longtr.cex will have one tier per line format. Now you can just subtract line numbers.

Leonid.



On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:58, RCorrigan wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out how to compute the distance between specific
> constructions without counting them by hand.
> Suppose for example, that I want to know how many intervening turns/
> utterances (I don't care which as long as it's consistent) there are
> between a production on line 26 and another construction on line 44
> for a particular child. then I want to know the distance between a
> construction on line 55 and line 63. Subtracting line numbers doesn't
> work because there are different numbers of dependent tiers coded,
> even for an individual child (while %mor % gra are there for all the
> utterances, sometimes there are additional comments or other codes
> depending upon the child). I don't think it can be done without adding
> additional coding, but maybe I'm missing a switch in one of the
> programs that might help me out.
> 
> Bobbi Corrigan
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