MLT: counting null utterances (i.e. communicative gestures) as turns

[Suzy Read]

Oh thank you Leonid, I didn't realize a fix had been completed! Huge
thanks! :)


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Suzy,
>
> CLAN was fixed to count both turns and utterances for empty utterances
> when Brian MacWhinney replied to your email on August 27th. Please download
> latest CLAN from childes web site and follow instructions in that email.
>
>
> Leonid.
>
> On Sep 4, 2014, at 12:16, Suzy Read <suzannec.read at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm using CLAN to run MLT analyses on a corpus of data where parents and
> children read books together. In our transcripts, sometimes the parent or
> child will use a communicative non-verbal gesture (e.g. pointing at the
> book, waving their hand) but will not speak. We have transcribed these
> events so that the main line is a null utterance containing just "0", as
> follows:
>
> **FATP1: whose house are they going to?*
> **CHIP1: 0.*
> *%act: points at the house.*
> **FATP:  that's right.*
>
> In these transcripts, the child's pointing is clearly a conversation turn.
> But when I run the MLT operation, I've found that that the null utterances
> are being counted as utterances, but not as turns. I cannot figure out what
> switches to use to make CLAN count the null utterances as turns. I tried to
> add the [+ trn] postcode after the 0 in the main line, and then to add the
> switch +s"[+ trn]", but this did not work (it made CLAN look at *only*
> null utterances, but still not counting them as turns).
>
> Would anyone be able to assist? I would really appreciate the help! Thanks
> in advance!
>
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