question about w option

[HJ Heather Kim]

Dear Brian,

Thanks for your response. I did happen to discover the double-clicking
myself by *accident*, and found the feature very neat. I posted my initial
inquiry because I was wondering whether there was any other "shorter-cut"
than going back and forth between cha files and output file to be able to
get some contextual information.

In addition to the double clicking option, I think I'll also try out coding
+ kwal command option you suggested.
Thank you for your help!

heather kim

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Heather,
>
>      By the way, did you realize that you could double click on the output
> from MAXWD and that will directly open the segment with each of the
> relevant longest utterances.  For example, if you command is
>
> maxwd barry.cha +g2 +t*CHI
>
> The output will be:
>
> From file <barry.cha>
> *** File "barry.cha": line 87:     Number of chosen words 10.
> *CHI: this the the car can go go on like this ?
>
> Then you can click on the line with the three stars and it will open up
> the original and you can look at the lines before and after and cut and
> paste.  Or you could add a code there and later use KWAL with the +w switch
> to extract the segments as you need.
>
> We are not really sure exactly what you need in this case.  One possible
> change to CLAN that Leonid could do would be to make it so that KWAL itself
> could directly process the lines with *** and then you could use the +w
> switch directly.
>
> If we understood a bit more about what you are trying to achieve, that
> might help.
>
> --Brian MacWhinney
>
> On Feb 19, 2013, at 15:50, HJ Heather Kim wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am doing an analysis on family mealtime conversations-
> I have searched for 10 longest utterances produced by each child by using
> maxwd command. And I would like to examine the utterances (or turns) that
> precede and follow each of the longest target utterances. I tried using the
> w option, but it didn't work with the maxwd command. Will there be a way
> for me to pull out those preceding/following utterances?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Heather Kim
>
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