Frequency of verb forms by verb type

Tue Oct 8 20:27:31 UTC 2013

Thanks for both of those ideas! I just quickly tried the one Leonid sent
and it did exactly that. I appreciate the quick replies!

Nicole

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>wrote:

>
> To include only specified tiers in the output you should used KWAL
> command. For example, to create a file with only *PAR: tiers use this
> command:
>
> kwal +t*PAR +d +f *.cha
>
>
> Leonid.
>
>
>
> On Oct 8, 2013, at 15:37, Nicole Tracy-Ventura wrote:
>
> Thank you, Leonid. I will try that.
>
> Do you also happen to know if there's a way to make a copy of a .cha file
> where a certain speaker tier is always excluded? For example, I want to
> have the participant's data only in a new file. Then I plan to use the
> cp2utf +d1 +d2 command to create .txt files that I can analyze with another
> program that can't distinguish between speaker tiers like CLAN (I'm only
> interested in the participant's speech). I hope that makes sense.
>
> Many thanks,
> Nicole
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>wrote:
>
>> Nicole,
>>
>> Try command "freq +s"@|-v,|-cop,|-aux,|-mod,|-mod:*,|-part" *.cha". The
>> +s option is so complicated, because there are a lot of way to mark
>> different kind of verbs. This assumes that your data is in English and has
>> %mor tier that was created with the latest mor grammar from childes web
>> site. Otherwise, I don't think CLAN can do anything without explicit list
>> of words.
>>
>> Leonid.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 8, 2013, at 13:16, Nicole Tracy-Ventura wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm interested in getting frequency counts of how often different verb
>> forms are used by verb type. For example, imagine I want to know how often
>> the verb 'walk' is used in the present tense, the present progressive,
>> simple past, etc. But in this case I don't have a specific list of verbs.
>> Rather I want to compare all verb types to see if some occur more often in
>> one form over the others. Is it possible to do this in CLAN? I'm working
>> with Spanish data that has been tagged with MOR so the information I need
>> is there with the lemmas and verb tag.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Nicole
>>
>> Nicole Tracy-Ventura, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of World Languages
>> University of South Florida
>> 4202 East Fowler Ave, CPR419
>> Tampa, FL 33620-5700
>> Email: nkt at usf.edu
>>
>>
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