3rd or 4th language

[Kevin Donnelly]

Hi Brian

::::On Friday 23 March 2012 Brian MacWhinney said::::
>     Let me suggest yet another way of dealing with the issue of words that
> occur in both languages.  This method relies on coding inside MOR.  For
> example, in the English MOR, I have created a file called co-cant.cut. 
> These are Cantonese interjections that occur very frequently inside
> English-only sentences.  Here is an example line:
> 
> †ò {[scat co][lan yue]} "laa4"
> 
> Note, that I could also write this as laa4 in my transcript and in the MOR
> lexicon and it would work the same.
> 
> If I include the feature "lan" in my output.cut file, I then get this
> output for this form:
> 
> co|laa4&yue
> 
> I can then search for such forms using +s"*&yue" and thereby avoid always
> having to type (and read) @s:eng&yue every time these conjunctions occur.
> 
> I think this is the best way to do this, because it gives you central
> control of your treatment of words appearing in both languages.  For
> Welsh-English transcripts, if I remember correctly, there are frequent
> uses of "well"  which could be handled in this same way.
> 
> Note also that I have a parallel series of English words in the Cantonese
> lexicon.

This is an interesting approach, though it is predicated on a MOR grammar 
being available for the languages concerned.  Doesn't it also mean that the 
language allocation of a word is dependent on entries in files other than the 
chat file itself?  That may not be convenient for some purposes.

-- 
Pob hwyl / Best wishes

Kevin Donnelly
kevindonnelly.org.uk

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