help with freqpos

[Bernadette Plunkett]

Thanks Brian,
I can't have looked at the list of switches for freqpos very carefully.
Sorry for the trouble. That will do fine for my purposes.
Bernadette


On 15 February 2014 22:14, Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Bernadette,
>
>     For FREQPOS, the -s switch is being used to mask words that somehow
> you want to treat as irrelevant.  I think you want to use the +g switch to
> include specific words or words in a file.  In this program, the +g is
> acting more like the +s in other programs.  Of course, to make this work
> for your verb tracking exercise, you would have to have a pretty good list
> of verbs.
>
> --Brian MacWhinney
> On Feb 15, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Bernadette Plunkett <
> plunkettbernadette at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> it appears that freqpos can be used with the -s switch to exclude words in
> a file but not with +s to get the frequency and position of only the words
> in the file.
> I can think of one potential work around which is it to run a combo search
> on the words in the file, output it to clan format and then run freqpos.
> Can anyone think of a better one?
> I'm aiming to get my students to be able to quickly search to see when
> verbs are used in the first position in the sentence. Some of the students
> are working on languages for which the data has no MOR tier.
> thanks,
> Bernadette
>
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