conserving print space in freq

Tue Apr 22 15:56:02 UTC 2014

Actually, I just found that you can highlight all the output in word and then it will instantly format into multiple columns, so... never mind, as SNL used to say. That reduced about 60 pages of print into 15. That will teach me to try stuff before whining to the crowd :)

But, to answer your content question: we are looking for "mental state words" in mothers' speech in a current project. While it's nice to imagine them up front, we find it good to examine the actual combined output to see what words were actually used (we of course KWAL ambiguous items); then we can place these into search files and derive proportional use in each mother's individual session. We've done tubs of these over the years, in identifying use of literacy-related language, and similarly "themed" searches.

Nan

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Dear Nan,

One easy way to do this is to open your FREQ output in a text editor like MS-Word or BBEdit and replace carriage returns with tabs.   I tried this and it was readable and definitely would save paper.  But I don't quite understand what exactly you want.  Maybe if you could type out a few lines of the current input and then show precisely how you would want to have it formatted, we could get a clearer idea of what you have in mind.  Also, could you please explain how you use this to "identify potential lexical candidates".  Candidates for what?  Training?  Testing?

-Brian MacWhinney

On Apr 22, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Nan Bernstein Ratner <nratner at umd.edu<mailto:nratner at umd.edu>> wrote:

Is there any way to direct the output of large freq runs (which we use to create targeted search files) so that you get more than one line per type? We tend to examine output in groups to identify potential lexical candidates.  Right now we cut and paste into columns or spreadsheets, but I was wondering if there was a better option?
N

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