number of utterances

[Leonid Spektor]

Misha,

	The command 'freq +y +s"\**:" [filename]' give you a breakdown of how many of each particular speaker's utterances there are in a file and the total number of utterances in the file can be found next to label "Total number of items (tokens)". The +s"\**:" option instructs freq to look for speaker tier names only. This utterances count is dependent on three conditions:

1. there aren't any words inside any utterance that start with '*' character and end with ':' character.
2. no utterance has been interrupted and then continued by the same speaker as indicated by "+," and "+." codes.
3. every speaker tier has only one utterance, if your data file passes CLAN's CHECK, then this condition is true.


If you have some utterances that have been interrupted and then continued or if you have more than one utterance per speaker tier, then as Nan suggested in her reply, you should use MLT. Or for more strict count according to Brown use MLU.

Leonid.



On Jul 19, 2012, at 16:13 , Misha Becker wrote:

> I'm wondering how to calculate the number of utterances a given speaker produces in each file (I will be searching for *MOT and *FAT). I have a note from many years ago that the way to do this is with the following command:
> 
> freq +y +s\** [filename]
> 
> But this doesn't actually do what I want. It seems to give the number of words produced by each speaker in a file. How do I find out the number of *utterances*? I've looked through the latest version of the Clan manual but haven't found the answer.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Misha
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