Frequency of verb forms by verb type

[Kevin Donnelly]

Hi Leonid

::::On Tuesday 08 October 2013 Leonid Spektor said::::
> Your suggestion to use Unix commands or any other non-CLAN commands
> on CHAT data is not a good idea, unless you take extra precautions,
> because CHAT format allows long tiers to wrap-around. Non-CLAN commands
> will work often, but they will fail on wrapped-around tiers and will leave
> out the part of tier that is wrapped. If you really want to use non-CLAN
> commands, then you should first run CLAN's LONGTIER command to remove all
> the tier wrapping and to make sure that the whole tier is on one line.

Sure, good point - you need to use LONGTIER or something like Sed to 
straighten the lines (and in fact that might usefully be added to CLAN as an 
option). But I think it's important to remember that one of the CHAT format's 
strengths is that it is a vanilla plain text file, and therefore does not 
actually require CLAN programs to analyse - using other programs is eminently 
possible.  It's maybe worth highlighting this because there was a recent 
exchange on an R (stats language) list where the OP seemed to be under the 
impression that CHAT files could ONLY be handled by CLAN - in fact, R will 
consume them with no problem at all, just as it will consume any other text 
file.

-- 
Pob hwyl / Best wishes

Kevin Donnelly
kevindonnelly.org.uk
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